At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
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At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
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At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
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(76-7) At Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they are cast into a dead sleep, the riders also and the horses.
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Passages linked to Psalms 76:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
- Exodus 15:21 Miriam answered them, “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
- Psalms 80:16 It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
- Exodus 14:27-28 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
- Exodus 15:10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Ezekiel 39:20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
- Exodus 15:4-6 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- 1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
- 2 Samuel 10:18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed seven hundred charioteers of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
- Psalms 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Psalms 104:7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- Isaiah 37:36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Jeremiah 51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 51:57 I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
- Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
- Nahum 2:13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
- Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
- Zechariah 12:4 In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,…
Psa 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Ver. 6. At thy rebuke, O God, &c.] i.e. With thy mighty word of command, and without any more ado. God can nod men to destruction, Psa 80:16, blow them into hell, Job 4:9, rebuke them to death, as here; do it with as much ease as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim, Isa 25:11,
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The chariot and horse] The chieftains of the army.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The chariot and horse; the men who rode upon…
The chariot and horse; the men who rode upon and fought from chariots and horses, who fight with most advantage, and usually have most courage; and much more unable were their footmen to resist or avoid the stroke.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,.... The God…
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,.... The God of Jacob personally, and of his posterity, the children of Israel, and of the church, often so called who rebukes his people in love, but his enemies with furious rebukes, with rebukes in flames of fire; with such he rebukes the Heathen, destroys the wicked, and puts out their name for ever:
both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep; that is, the riders in chariots and on horses; such there were doubtless in the Assyrian army, it being usual to have such in great armies. Kimchi observes, that the word translated "cast into a dead sleep", is in the singular number, and interprets it of the king, the head of the men of might: but Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was not slain, he departed to his own country; wherefore he applies it to Gog and Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, Eze 39:1 and may very well be understood of the head of the apostasy, the king of the bottomless pit, the beast or false prophet, who being destroyed, the flesh of his captains and horsemen shall be the food of the fowls of the air, at the supper of the great God, Rev 19:17.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Chariot - The men who rode upon, and fought…
Chariot - The men who rode upon, and fought from chariots and horses.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. At thy rebuke] It was not by…
Verse 6. At thy rebuke] It was not by any human means that this immense army was overthrown; it was by the power of God alone. Not only infantry was destroyed, but the cavalry also.
The chariot and horse] That is, the chariot horses, as well as the men, were
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Cast into a dead sleep.] Were all suffocated in the same night. On the destruction of this mighty host, the reader is requested to refer to Clarke's notes on "2Ki 19:35".
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob - At…
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob - At thy word; thy bidding; or, when God rebuked them for their attempt to attack the city. The idea is, that they were discomfited by a word spoken by God.
Both the chariot and horse ... - The Septuagint renders this, “They who are mounted on horses.” The word rendered “chariot” here - רכב rekeb - may mean “riders, cavalry,” as well as chariot. See the notes at Isa 21:7. Hence, there would be less incongruity in the Hebrew than in our translation, where it is said that the “chariots” have fallen into a deep sleep. The idea may be either that horsemen and horses had fallen into a deep slumber, or that the rumbling of the chariot-wheels had ceased, and that there was a profound silence, like a deep sleep.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. The chariot and horse—Cavalry and the war-chariot were…
6. The chariot and horse—Cavalry and the war-chariot were the terror of ancient warfare.
Dead sleep—The word indicates a profounder sleep than is natural, (Dan_8:18; Dan_10:9,) and the language intimates that the judgment was not heralded by any alarm. Whatever physical cause was used, if any, it occasioned no disturbance of the camp. Silently, at the rebuke of Jehovah, from a deeper sleep than was natural they slept the sleep of death. See note on Psa_46:6
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. At thy rebuke] Cp. Psa_9:5; Psa_18:15; Isa_17:13.
6. At thy rebuke] Cp. Psa_9:5; Psa_18:15; Isa_17:13.
are cast into a dead sleep] A word which denotes a deep, supernaturally caused slumber. It is usual to say that ‘chariot and horse’ stand by metonymy for charioteers and horsemen: but surely poetry imagines chariots as well as horses to be alive. The “pransing horses” and the “bounding chariots” (Nah_2:3-4; Nah_3:2), all the rush and roar of the battle, are still and silent as the grave. Cp. Isa_43:17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Are cast into a deep sleep.—The same Hebrew…
(6) Are cast into a deep sleep.—The same Hebrew expression is used of Sisera’s profound slumber (Jdg_4:21). Deborah’s Song and Exodus 15 are in the poet’s mind, as they were to the author of Isa_43:17, and as they have inspired the well-known lines of Byron’s “Sennacherib.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob. The catastrophe…
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob. The catastrophe has been God"s doing; man has had no part in it. (comp. 2Ki_19:28, 2Ki_19:35) Both the chariot and the horse are cast into a dead sleep. Metonymy for the charioteers and the horsemen. (comp. Isa_43:17) These were the two chief arms of the military service with the Assyrians.
The power of the Lord"s rebuke.
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"At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep." Byron pictures the scene with great poetical force"And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. "And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail.
"God did but speak the word, as the God of Jacob that commands deliverances for Jacob, and, at his rebuke, the chariot and horse were both cast into a dead sleep. See the power and efficacy of God"s rebukes." "It is impossible to mistake the allusion to the deeper sleep of death, falling on the sleeping Assyrian army, before the valiant men could "find their hands," in the half-waking grasp of weapons in the hour of danger.
I GOD"S REBUKES ARE SOMETIMES WORDS. Illustrate by Moses" messages from God to Pharaoh. Or the case of the prophet who went to Bethel to rebuke Jeroboam. Or Nathan"s rebuke of David. Or Elijah"s rebuke of Ahab. What is it that specially calls for the Lord"s rebuke? Wilfulness. Persistent forcing of a man"s own way. And even more precisely, the daring of the man who forces his way when he knows it is contrary to the will of God, or when he means to put dishonour on God. This is the case before us now. Sennacherib was forcing his own way, with designed intention of insulting and humiliating the God of Israel. And still the Divine rebuke is called forth when we fall into the committal of "presumptuous sins.
II GOD"S REBUKES ARE SOMETIMES DEEDS. But they are voiceful deeds. See here, the rebuke was a night blast that slew the tens of thousands, and drove Sennacherib back to his land, a defeated and humiliated man. God"s rebuke to hardened Pharaoh was the flower of his army drowned in the Red Sea. God"s rebuke to over confident David was three days" plague in the land. God"s rebuke to Herod, who accepted the homage due alone to God, was a terrible disease, that carried him off in agony and disgrace. Read life aright, and we may find God"s rebuke in disappointments that we have known, and disasters we have suffered. Blessed are they who
(1) receive, who
(2) heed, and who
(3) respond to, their Lord"s rebuke! R.T.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 6. At thy rebuke. A word accomplished all,…
Ver. 6. At thy rebuke. A word accomplished all, there was no need of a single blow.
O God of Jacob. God of thy wrestling people, who again like their father supplant their enemy; God of the covenant and the promise, thou hast in this gracious character fought for thine elect nation.
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Both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. They will neither neigh nor rattle again; still are the trampings of the horses and the crash of the cars; the calvary no more creates its din. The Israelites always had a special fear of horses and scythed chariots; and, therefore, the sudden stillness of the entire force of the enemy in this department is made the theme of special rejoicing. The horses were stretched on the ground, and the chariots stood still, as if the whole camp had fallen asleep. Thus can the Lord send a judicial sleep over the enemies of the church, a premonition of the second death, and this he can do when they are in the zenith of power; and, as they imagine, in the very act of blotting out the remembrance of his people. The world's Rabshakahs can write terrible letters, but the Lord answers not with pen and ink, but with rebukes, which bear death in every syllable.
Whole Psalm. No Psalm has a greater right to follow Psalm 75 than this, which is inscribed To the Precentor, with accompaniment of stringed instruments (vid. iv. 1), a Psalm by Asaph, a song. Similar expressions (God of Jacob, Ps 75:10 77:7; saints, wicked of the earth, Ps 75:9 76:10), and the same impress throughout speak in favour of unity of authorship. In other respects too, they form a pair: Psalm 75 prepares the way for the divine deed of judgments as imminent, which Psalm 76 celebrates as having taken place. Franz Delitzsch.
Ver. 6. Cast into a deep sleep. It is observable that the verb here used is the same as is used in the narrative of the act of Jael, and of the death of the proud enemy of Israel, Sisera, cast into a deep sleep, by God's power, working by the hand of a woman. Christopher Wordsworth.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 At your rebuke
At your rebuke
The abstract noun "rebuke" refers to saying something in an angry or critical way. AT: "When you rebuked them" (See: Abstract Nouns)
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fell asleep
This phrase is a polite way to say that they died. AT: "died" or "fell down dead" (See: Euphemism)
who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
This can be translated as a statement. AT: "No one can stand in your sight when you are angry." or "You can destroy anyone at whom you are angry." (See: Rhetorical Question)
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