1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 6:4; Jeremiah 23:40; Job 40:12
And he smote his enemies in the hinder part - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at his approach,...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
the hinder parts . rear, or backward.
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. He smote his enemies in the hinder part - This refers to the hemor...
He smote his enemies, &c.— This refers to the emrods of the Philistines, which were remembered to their everlasting disgrace, by the golde...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. -Now Yahweh awakes as one out of sleep, and d...
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...
In the hinder parts] RV 'backward.'
He smote. — Possibly an allusion to 1 Samuel 5:9 , or else to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David.
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...
God Raises up His Shepherd David Psalms 78:59-72 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after t...
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...
The history of the church is pursued through all these verses. But we must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of the Psalm,...
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts ,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put...
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. Ver. 66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts ] viz. Wi...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep , &c. “While, by his permission, the Philistines were chastising his people for their sins, he held his...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel....
Smote his enemies in the hinder part, with the disease of the emerods, which was both painful and shameful. He caused them to perpetuate their own...
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...
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
And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts, His blows raining down upon the backs, principally of the Philistines, who at that time were the chief...
Smote — Them with the piles. Reproach — He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, th...
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.