Exodus 9:18-34; Psalms 105:32; Psalms 105:33
He destroyed their vines with hail - Margin, killed. See Exodus 9:22-26 . In the account in Exodus the hail is said to have smitten man and beas...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
destroyed . killed. hail. The seventh plague ( Exodus 9:18 ). frost. Word occurs nowhere else. Probably. hailstones.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. He destroyed their vines with hail - Though the vine was never plentiful in...
He destroyed their vines— Egypt is not by any means a wine country, nor ever was; so far from it, that they were forced to use a sort of beer for c...
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgett...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people fro...
Frost] RM 'great hailstones.'
Vines. — In the history of the plagues ( Exodus 9:13-25 ) no mention is made either of vines or sycamores or of fig-trees, as in Psalms 105:33 , a...
Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israe...
“Signs in Egypt” Psalms 78:38-48 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities , Roman...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is...
Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and...
He destroyed their vines with hail ,.... Or "killed" k them; for there is a vegetative life in plants: this was the seventh plague of Egypt, attende...
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. Ver. 47. He destroyed their vines with hail ] Heb. He killed, Quia plant...
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt Here the Psalm goes back to the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11-12 ,) in order t...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel....
Sycomore trees; or, wild fig trees , which were there in great plenty. Under these and the vines all other trees are comprehended. And this hail a...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflec...
The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10-16 . They kept not the covenant of God, and re...
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
He destroyed their vines, the growth of which was a very important industry in ancient Egypt, with hail, in the seventh plague, Exodus 9:23-25 ,...
Sycamore — trees — Under these and the vines, all other trees are comprehended. This hail and frost destroyed the fruit of the trees, and sometimes...
47 He destroyedh their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.