Psalms 78:19

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, they spake against God - That is, in the manner which is immediately specified - by calling in question his power, or his ability to provide...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God (m) furnish a table in the wilderness? (m) Thus when we give place to sin, we are moved to doubt God...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

spake against. Compare Numbers 11:4-6 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

19. And they spake against God. The prophet had said that they tempted God in their heart; (327) and now he adds, that they were not ashame...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 632 THE EVIL OF UNBELIEF Psalms 78:19-22 . They spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he s...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A comparison of these verses with the references in the margin shows how the ancient narratives fared under poetical treatment. Furnish a table. —...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Table in the Wilderness” Psalms 78:13-24 Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast between God's unswerving goodness a...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we have a full representation of Israel's unworthiness, as the preceding verses gave us a short relation of God's mercy. Reader, had you and I b...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘LIMITING THE HOLY ONE’ ‘They said, Can God?’ Psalms 78:19 Can a man limit God? At first sight it seems impossible, and yet it is done by mult...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, they spoke against God ,.... Not only thought ill of him, and tempted him in their hearts, but they expressed with their mouths what was in the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Ver. 19. Yea, they stake against God ] Their villanous and foul...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And they sinned yet more Hebrew, ויוסיפו עוד לחשׂאלו, They added yet to sin against him. All these miraculous works did not alter their depraved...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to...
The Biblical Illustrator

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. The conduct of God towards the world, and the world’s conduct to Him I. God’...
The Biblical Illustrator

Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? A table in the wilderness Here is-- I. A base ingratitude. He had done so, and they had participa...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Narrative of God's Deeds
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 32:19 ; Exodus 16:8-10 ; Job 34:37 ; Numbers 11:13 ; Numbers 11:4 ; Numbers 21:5 ; Revelation 13:6 ; Romans 9:20

¹⁹ Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnishb a table in the wilderness?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 78:19