When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
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When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
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When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;
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Passages linked to Psalms 78:59 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 106:40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.
- Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
- Genesis 18:20-21 Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
- Leviticus 20:23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Leviticus 26:44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
- Deuteronomy 32:19 Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Psalms 11:4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Psalms 14:2-5 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh? There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- Zechariah 11:8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 59 God heard it, and was wroth. The prophet…
59 God heard it, and was wroth. The prophet again shows that God, when he found that no good resulted from his long-suffering, which the people abused, yea, even treated with mockery, and perverted as an encouragement to greater excess in sinning, at length proceeded to inflict severe punishments upon them. The metaphor, which he borrows from earthly judges, is frequently to be met with in the Scriptures. When God is said to hear, it is not meant that it is necessary for him to make inquisition, but it is intended to teach us that he does not rush forth inconsiderately to execute his judgments, and thus to prevent any from supposing that he ever acts precipitately. The amount of what is stated is, that the people continued so pertinaciously in their wickedness, that at length the cry of it ascended to heaven; and the very weight of the punishment demonstrated the aggravated nature of the offense.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 78:59 When God heard [this], he was wroth,…
Psa 78:59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Ver. 59. When God heard this] Sin crieth aloud in God’s ears, though it be never so closely and cunningly carried.
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And greatly abhorred Israel] As appeareth all along the Book of Judges, whereof this verse is a summary.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heard, i.e. perceived or understood, as hearing is oft…
Heard, i.e. perceived or understood, as hearing is oft used, as Gen 11:7; 41:15, &c. It is spoken of God after the manner of men.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh.... The…
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh.... The tabernacle which Moses built in the wilderness by the command of the Lord, and according to the pattern showed him; and which, when the Israelites were settled in the land of Canaan, was set up in Shiloh; see Jos 18:1, and here it was in the times of Eli and Samuel, which are here referred to:
the tent which he placed among men; it was as a tent moveable from place to place, and was to continue at longest but for a while, as the whole tabernacle worship and service was to do; here the divine Majesty dwelt, and among men, vile, sinful, wicked, and ungrateful men; which was a wonderful instance of his condescension and goodness, Kg1 8:27, but when their iniquities grew to such a degree as were intolerable, he forsook it and removed it elsewhere; see Jer 7:12, rather the words may be rendered, "the tent", or "tabernacle, which he had fixed in Adam"; as they are by Doctor Lightfoot (q); that is, in the city Adam, which was in the centre of the parting of the waters of Jordan, and where was the station of the tabernacle and ark of the covenant, when Israel entered into them, and passed through them; which is mentioned as a wonderful circumstance, both with respect to the tabernacle and to the people of Israel.
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(q) See his Works, vol. 2. p. 82.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Heard - Perceived or understood, it is spoken of…
Heard - Perceived or understood, it is spoken of God after the manner of men.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain When God heard this - literally, “God heard;” that…
When God heard this - literally, “God heard;” that is, he understood this; he was acquainted with it. He heard their prayers addressed to false gods; he heard their praises sung in honor of idols.
He was wroth - This is language taken from the common manner of speaking among people, for language derived from human conceptions and usages must be employed when we speak of God, though it may be difficult to say what is its exact meaning. The general sense is that his conduct toward them was as if he was angry; or was that which is used by a man who is displeased.
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And greatly abhorred Israel - The idea in the word rendered abhorred is that of rejecting them with abhorrence; that is, the reference is not merely to the internal feeling or emotion, but to the act which is the proper accompaniment of such an internal feeling. He cast them off; he treated them as not his own. The addition of the word “greatly” shows how intense this feeling was; how decided was his aversion to their conduct.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 59. When God heard—A judicial hearing is intended. The…
59. When God heard—A judicial hearing is intended. The cry of their sins had come before him, and judgment could no longer be delayed. See 1Sa_2:12-36
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 59. Cp. Psa_78:21. and greatly abhorred Israel] Better, and…
59. Cp. Psa_78:21. and greatly abhorred Israel] Better, and utterly rejected Israel. Israel here can hardly mean Ephraim only, as some commentators hold; for neither sin nor punishment was limited to Ephraim, and the sanctuary of Shiloh, though in Ephraimite territory, was the sanctuary of all Israel.
59–64. Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain When God heard this, he was wroth (comp. above,…
When God heard this, he was wroth (comp. above, ver. 21). And greatly abhorred Israel. Not Israel, as distinct from Judah, but Israel in the broadest sense, the entire nation, as in ver. 55.
God turned against his people.
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I THIS AN AWFUL POSSIBILITY. We have an instance here told of. And the history of nations, Churches, individuals, furnish many more.
II BUT GREATLY DISBELIEVED. The devil will do his bad best to make men not believe it. Therefore uses:
1. False theology, wresting the Scriptures. There were people in St. John"s day (see 1Jo 1) who said they had no sin. Some trusted in their Abrahamic descent; others did not believe in sin at all, they counted it to be but infirmity; others talked of the imputed righteousness of Christ, and affirmed that whatever sin they might commit, they, being in Christ, were guiltless; others, as today, believed that God was too merciful to condemn any one.
2. The deceitfulness of sin.
3. The ill example of others.
III MUCH NEEDING, THEREFORE, TO BE INSISTED ON. Slight views of sin lie at the root of well nigh all departures from God, hut such views are impossible when it is seen to what they lead.
IV BUT NEVER TO BE FEARED BY THOSE WHO WILL LIVE IN THE LOVE OF GOD. S.C.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 59. When God heard this, he was wroth.…
Ver. 59. When God heard this, he was wroth. The mere report of it filled him with indignation; he could not bear it, he was incensed to the uttermost, and most justly so.
And greatly abhorred Israel. He cast his idolatrous people from his favour, and left them to themselves, and their own devices. How could he have fellowship with idols? What concord hath Christ with Belial? Sin is in itself so offensive that it makes the sinner offensive too. Idols of any sort are highly abhorrent to God, and we must see to it that we keep ourselves from them through divine grace, for rest assured idolatry is not consistent with true grace in the heart. If Dagon sit aloft in any soul, the ark of God is not there. Where the Lord dwells no image of jealousy will be tolerated. A visible church will soon become a visible curse if idols be set up in it, and then the pruning knife will remove it as a dead branch from the vine.
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Note that God did not utterly cast away his people Israel even when he greatly abhorred them, for he returned in mercy to them, so the subsequent verses tell us: so now the seed of Abraham, though for awhile under a heavy cloud, will be gathered yet again, for the covenant of salt shall not be broken. As for the spiritual seed, the Lord hath not despised nor abhorred them; they are his peculiar treasure and lie for ever near his heart.
Ver. 59. When God heard this. The psalmist represents the noise of the ill deeds of the people ascending to the ears of the Eternal. Armand de Mestral, in "Commentaire sur le Livre de Psaumes." 1856.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
2. A baleful might, Ps 78:60-64.
3. A blessed sunrise, Ps 78:65-72. C. D.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
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3. A blessed sunrise, Ps 78:65-72. C. D.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
2. A baleful might, Ps 78:60-64.
3. A blessed sunrise, Ps 78:65-72. C. D.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
2. A baleful might, Ps 78:60-64.
3. A blessed sunrise, Ps 78:65-72. C. D.
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1. A gloomy sunset, Ps 78:59-60.
2. A baleful might, Ps 59:60-64.
3. A blessed sunrise, Ps 78:65-72. C. D.
Ver. 70-72. Spiritual promotions. See Psalms on "Ps 78:70" for further information.
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