Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalm 78

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Psalm 78 . 1 , An exhortation both to learn and to preach , the law of God; Psalm 78 . 9 , The story of God’s wrath against the incredulous and disobedient; Psalm 78 . 67 , The Israelites being rejected , God chose Judah , Zion , and David.

Asaph , to give instruction. Psalm 74 . 1 *title This Psalm was probably written , as Calmet and others suppose , by Asaph in the days of Asa , who had gained , by the aid of the Syrians , a great victory over the Israelites , and brought back to the pure worship of God many out of the tribes of Ephraim , Manasseh , and Simeon. 2Chr. 15 . 1-16 . 14

Psalm 78:1

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 78:1 · BSB

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Psalm 49 . 1-3

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Psalm 78:2

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

Psalm 78:2 · BSB

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Psalm 78:3

that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

Psalm 78:3 · BSB

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Psalm 78:4

We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

Psalm 78:4 · BSB

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Psalm 78:5

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

Psalm 78:5 · BSB

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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

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Psalm 78:6

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Psalm 78:6 · BSB

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Psalm 78:7

that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

Psalm 78:7 · BSB

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Psalm 78:8

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 78:8 · BSB

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Heb. prepared not

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Psalm 78:9

The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

Psalm 78:9 · BSB

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Some think this refers to a defeat of the Ephraimites mentioned in

  • 1 Chronicles 7:20-22 but it probably refers to the conduct and defeat of the ten tribes of which Ephraim was the head. Nothing is recorded in the history of Israel concerning the cowardice of the Ephraimites , as distinct from that of the other tribes . some therefore think , "that the children of Ephraim" is put by a figure of speech for the nation in general
  • Deuteronomy 1:41-44
  • Joshua 17:16-18
  • 1 Samuel 4:10
  • 1 Samuel 31:1

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carrying Heb. throwing forth

Psalm 78:10

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

Psalm 78:10 · BSB

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Psalm 78:11

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

Psalm 78:11 · BSB

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Psalm 78:12

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalm 78:12 · BSB

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Zoan , the ancient capital of the Pharaohs , where Moses wrought so many miracles , is rendered by the Chaldee , Tanium , LXX בםיע , 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 , 44 miles west of Pelusium , and 169 miles east of Alexandria , according to the Antonine Itinerary , and three miles from the Mediterranean , according to the Geograph. Nubiens. Clim. 3 , par. 3. There are ruins still remaining to mark the site of Zoan , or Tanis , called San by the Arabs; comprising broken obelisks , capitals of the Corinthian order , a granite monument , etc

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Psalm 78:13

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Psalm 78:13 · BSB

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Psalm 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Psalm 78:14 · BSB

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Psalm 78:15

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Psalm 78:15 · BSB

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Psalm 78:16

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalm 78:16 · BSB

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Psalm 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalm 78:17 · BSB

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Psalm 78:18

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 78:18 · BSB

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Psalm 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalm 78:19 · BSB

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furnish Heb. order

Psalm 78:20

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Psalm 78:20 · BSB

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Psalm 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Psalm 78:21 · BSB

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Psalm 78:22

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Psalm 78:22 · BSB

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Psalm 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalm 78:23 · BSB

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Psalm 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalm 78:24 · BSB

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The manna fell about their camp in the form of seeds; and as it appeared to come down from the clouds , it was not improperly termed degan shamayim , the corn of heaven or heavenly grain. See note on

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Psalm 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalm 78:25 · BSB

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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

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Psalm 78:26

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalm 78:26 · BSB

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blow Heb. go

Psalm 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalm 78:27 · BSB

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feathered fowls Heb. fowl of wing

Psalm 78:28

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalm 78:28 · BSB

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Psalm 78:29

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalm 78:29 · BSB

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Psalm 78:30

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalm 78:30 · BSB

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Psalm 78:31

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Psalm 78:31 · BSB

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or , young men

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smote down Heb. made to bow

Psalm 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Psalm 78:32 · BSB

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Psalm 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalm 78:33 · BSB

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Psalm 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Psalm 78:34 · BSB

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Psalm 78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalm 78:35 · BSB

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the high Ail elyon goalom , "the strong God , the Most High , their redeemer ," or kinsman . that one who possessed the right of redemption; the nearest akin to him who had forfeited his inheritance , as the word originally means; and hence is used for a redeemer; and here denotes Him who redeemed them from Egyptian bondage.

Psalm 78:36

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Psalm 78:36 · BSB

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Psalm 78:37

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalm 78:37 · BSB

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Psalm 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalm 78:38 · BSB

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Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalm 78:39 · BSB

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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

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Psalm 78:40

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalm 78:40 · BSB

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provoke him or , rebel against him

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:41 · BSB

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Psalm 78:42

They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalm 78:42 · BSB

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the enemy or , affliction

Psalm 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 78:43 · BSB

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wrought Heb. set

Psalm 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalm 78:44 · BSB

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  • Psalm 105:29
  • Exodus 7:17-21
  • Revelation 16:3-6 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

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Psalm 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalm 78:45 · BSB

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Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalm 78:46 · BSB

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Chosal , from chasal , to consume , eat up , is rendered גסןץמןϚ or גסןץקןע by the LXX , in

  • 2 Chronicles 6:28 and Aquila here , and also the Vulgate in Chron. and
  • Isaiah 33:4 and Jerome here , bruchus , the chaffer , which every one knows to be a great devourer of the leaves of trees. The Syriac in Joel 1 . 4
  • Joel 2:25 renders it tzartzooro , which Michaelis , from the Arabic tzartzar , a cricket , interprets the mole-cricket , which in its grub state is also very destructive to corn , grass , and other vegetables , by cankering the roots on which it feeds

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Psalm 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalm 78:47 · BSB

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destroyed or , killed

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." See note on 1 Chronicles 27 . 28.

frost or , great hailstones

Psalm 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalm 78:48 · BSB

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or , lightnings

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gave up Heb. shut up

Psalm 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.

Psalm 78:49 · BSB

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Psalm 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalm 78:50 · BSB

he spared9 parallels

life over to the pestilence1 parallel

or , beasts to the murrain

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made way Heb. weighed a path

Psalm 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Psalm 78:51 · BSB

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Psalm 78:52

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Psalm 78:52 · BSB

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Psalm 78:53

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psalm 78:53 · BSB

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overwhelmed Heb. covered

Psalm 78:54

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

Psalm 78:54 · BSB

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Psalm 78:55

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalm 78:55 · BSB

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Psalm 78:56

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Psalm 78:56 · BSB

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Psalm 78:57

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

Psalm 78:57 · BSB

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Psalm 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 78:58 · BSB

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Psalm 78:59

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Psalm 78:59 · BSB

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Psalm 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Psalm 78:60 · BSB

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Psalm 78:61

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Psalm 78:61 · BSB

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That is , the ark , where his power and glory were displayed

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Psalm 78:62

He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Psalm 78:62 · BSB

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Psalm 78:63

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Psalm 78:63 · BSB

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given to marriage Heb. praised

Psalm 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Psalm 78:64 · BSB

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Psalm 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalm 78:65 · BSB

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Psalm 78:66

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Psalm 78:66 · BSB

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Psalm 78:67

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalm 78:67 · BSB

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Psalm 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalm 78:68 · BSB

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Psalm 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalm 78:69 · BSB

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established Heb. founded

Psalm 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalm 78:70 · BSB

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Psalm 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Psalm 78:71 · BSB

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From following Heb. From after

Psalm 78:72

So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

Psalm 78:72 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web20 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Matthew 13:35 → Psalms 78:2, John 6:31 → Psalms 78:24
Allusions Psalm 78:44 → Exodus 7, Psalm 78:44-51 → Exodus 7, Psalm 78:54 → Exodus 15:17, Psalm 78:58 → Deuteronomy 5:9, Psalm 78:58 → Exodus 20:4, Psalm 78:58 → Exodus 20:5, Psalm 78:58-59 → Deuteronomy 5:9, Psalm 78:58-59 → Exodus 20:4, Psalm 78:58-59 → Exodus 20:5, Psalm 78:68 → Exodus 15:17, Psalm 78:68-69 → Exodus 15:17, Psalms 132:13 → Psalms 78:68-69, Isaiah 63:10 → Psalm 78:40, Isaiah 63:12 → Psalm 78:13, Isaiah 63:14 → Psalm 78:52
Echoes Psalm 78:58 → Deuteronomy 5:8, Psalm 78:58-59 → Deuteronomy 5:8
Longitudinal Themes
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