Psalm 78
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<> Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

for he

Psalm 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through …

Psalm 119:152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded …

Psalm 147:19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which …

Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk …

Deuteronomy 11:19 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you …

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this …

Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.

1 John 5:9-12 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: …

testimony. The word testimony is used for the ark, and for the law, written on tables of stone, put within the ark, and covered with the mercy seat. This testified the Lord's gracious presence with his people, and seemed to point out to them both the way of access and acceptance, and the standard or rule of their duty.

Exodus 25:16,21 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you…

Exodus 40:3,20 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the …

that they

Psalm 78:3,4 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…

Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the …

Ephesians 6:4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them …

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

set

Psalm 40:4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not …

Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him.

Psalm 91:14 Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: …

Psalm 130:6,7 My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: …

Psalm 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is …

Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is…

1 Peter 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and …

not forget

Psalm 77:10-12 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of …

Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Psalm 105:5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the …

Exodus 12:24-27 And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your …

Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you …

Deuteronomy 7:18,19 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the …

Deuteronomy 8:2,11 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you …

Esther 9:27,28 The Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all …

1 Corinthians 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this …

keep

Deuteronomy 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, …

John 14:21-24 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves …

1 John 3:22-24 And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, …

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his …

Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments …

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

as their

Psalm 68:6 God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are …

Psalm 106:7 Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered …

Exodus 32:9 And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, …

Exodus 33:3,5 To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the …

Exodus 34:9 And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let …

Deuteronomy 9:6,13 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good …

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am …

2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like …

Ezekiel 2:3-8 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, …

Ezekiel 20:8,18 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did …

Matthew 23:31-33 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of …

Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …

set not. Heb. prepared not

Psalm 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast …

2 Chronicles 12:14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have …

2 Chronicles 20:33 However, the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people …

2 Chronicles 30:19 That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers…

whose

Psalm 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast …

Deuteronomy 4:4 But you that did join to the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.

Joshua 14:8,9 Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the …

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

marvellous

Psalm 78:42-50 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them …

Psalm 105:27-38 They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham…

Psalm 135:9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the middle of you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, …

Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: …

Exodus 8:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus …

Exodus 9:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus …

Exodus 10:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened …

Exodus 11:1 And the LORD said to Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more on Pharaoh, …

Exodus 12:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying,

Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the middle of …

Deuteronomy 6:22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, …

Nehemiah 9:10 And showed signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, …

Zoan. Zoan, the ancient capital of the Pharaohs, where Moses wrought so many miracles, is rendered by the Chaldee, Tanium, LXX. Tavie Vulgate, Tanis, and Coptic, Tane from the Coptic, ten, plain, flat, level; being situated in the low ground of the Delta, on one of the eastern branches of the Nile, bearing its own name, near a large lake, now called the lake of Menzala,

Psalm 78:43 How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

Genesis 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land …

Numbers 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, …

Isaiah 19:11,13 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …

Ezekiel 30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and …

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

man, etc. or, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty. Lechem abbeerim, bread of the mighty: - they ate such food as could only be expected at the tables of the rich and great; - the best, the most delicate food. Or, it might be so called because it rendered the people healthy and vigorous, and fit for their marches.

Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his …

he sent

Exodus 16:8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the …

Matthew 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments …

Matthew 15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken …

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

no reference

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

smote down. Heb. made to bow
chosen men. or, young men.

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

for he

Psalm 103:14-16 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust…

Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for …

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born …

a wind. Or, as the Hebrew rooach holaich welo yashoov may be rendered, the spirit goeth away and returneth not again. To this purpose the Arabic, He remembered that they were flesh; and a spirit which when it departs returneth not again. The human being is composed of flesh and spirit, or body and soul: these are easily separated, and when separated, the body turns to dust, and the spirit returns no more to animate the body in a state of probation.

Job 7:7,16 O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good…

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your …

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Psalm 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Exodus 7:17-21 Thus said the LORD, In this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold…

Revelation 16:3-6 And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea; and it became …

The miracles mentioned in this and the four subsequent verses, evidently shew the power of God over the elements of nature, which at that time were the objects of Egyptian worship.

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

destroyed. or, killed, with hail

Psalm 105:32,33 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land…

Exodus 9:18-34 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very …

sycamore. From the value of the sycamore in furnishing wood for various uses, from the grateful shade which its wide spreading branches afforded, and on account of the fruit, which Mr. Maillet says the Egyptians hold in the highest estimation, we may conceive somewhat of the loss they sustained when their vines were destroyed with hail; and their sycamore trees with frost.

1 Chronicles 27:28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the …

frost. or, great hailstones.

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

gave up. Heb. shut up
hot thunderbolts. or, lightnings

Exodus 9:28 Entreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty …

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

cost

Psalm 44:2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; …

Psalm 105:44,45 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor …

Psalm 135:10-12 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings…

Psalm 136:18-22 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures for ever…

Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel: …

Joshua 7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …

Joshua 8:1 And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be you dismayed: take …

Joshua 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, …

Joshua 10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard …

Joshua 11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, …

Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote…

Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, …

Joshua 14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited …

Joshua 15:1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families…

Joshua 16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, …

Joshua 17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn …

Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together …

Joshua 19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the …

Joshua 20:1 The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,

Joshua 21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites to Eleazar …

Nehemiah 9:22-25 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and did divide them …

divided

Numbers 33:54 And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your …

Joshua 13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, …

Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua …

and made

Deuteronomy 6:10-12 And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into …

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

their high

Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …

Numbers 33:52 Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before …

Deuteronomy 12:2,4 You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which …

Ezekiel 20:28,29 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted …

moved

Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?

Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …

Deuteronomy 32:16,17,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations …

Judges 2:12,20 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them …

Ezekiel 8:3-5 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my …

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

with

Psalm 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves …

Exodus 20:4,5 You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any …

Deuteronomy 4:16-25 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude …

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination …

Judges 2:11,17 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and …

Judges 10:6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, …

1 Kings 11:7,10 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination …

1 Kings 12:31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest …

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because …

Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images …

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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