He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.
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Passages linked to Psalms 78:66 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.
- Job 40:12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Jeremiah 23:40 I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’ ”
- 1 Samuel 6:4 Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 78:66 And he smote his enemies in the…
Psa 78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Ver. 66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts] viz. With emerods, 1Sa 5:6; 1Sa 5:9; 1Sa 5:12, infami podicis ignominia affecit illos, he punished them, as we do puny boys on their posteriors.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Smote his enemies in the hinder part, with the…
Smote his enemies in the hinder part, with the disease of the emerods, which was both painful and shameful. He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emerods, the lasting monuments of their shame.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,.... That is,…
Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,.... That is, the tabernacle of Moses, which had been for a long time at Shiloh, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, the son of Joseph; when the ark was brought back by the Philistines, it was not returned to Shiloh, but carried to Kirjathjearim, where it remained twenty years, and after that was had to Zion, the city of David, Sa1 7:1, so the Targum,
"and he rejected the tabernacle which he had stretched out in the border of Joseph;''
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he did not refuse the tabernacle, or remove his presence from it; but he refused the place it had been in, or refused that it should be any more there:
and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: the same thing is designed as before; the meaning is, not that he rejected the tribe of Ephraim from being one of the tribes of Israel; nor does it refer to the revolt of Ephraim, or the ten tribes, from the pure worship of God to idolatry, and their separation from the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; or to their being carried captive into Assyria; since this historical narration reaches no further than the reign of David, or the time of Solomon at furthest; whereas the facts mentioned were a long time afterwards; nor does it regard the removal of government from the tribe of Ephraim, which was the seat of it in the times of Joshua, of which tribe he was, Num 13:8, though this tribe was overlooked in the choice of a king, one of the tribe of Benjamin being first chosen; and when he was rejected, then one of the tribe of Judah; but this purely, at least principally, intends that it was the will of God that the seat of worship should not be in this tribe any longer; that the ark and tabernacle should be no more there: perhaps the Ephraimites were more culpable, and more provoked the Lord with their idolatry, than the other tribes, since they are first and last taken notice of as the objects of the divine resentment in this account; see Psa 78:9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Smote - Them with the piles. Reproach - He…
Smote - Them with the piles. Reproach - He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, the lasting monuments of their shame.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder…
Verse 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder part] This refers to the hemorrhoids with which he afflicted the Philistines. See the note on 1Sa 5:6-10.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And he smote his enemies in the hinder part…
And he smote his enemies in the hinder part - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at his approach, or turned their backs; the other, that as they fled, he smote and destroyed them.
He put them to a perpetual reproach - As discomfited; as defeated and scattered; as unable to contend with him. The allusion is, probably, to the victories of David, occurring after the events related in the preceding verses.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder parts—The…
66. He smote his enemies in the hinder parts—The language admits of a twofold sense. First, that of wounding a retreating enemy in the back—an ineffaceable disgrace. Secondly, of smiting them with the painful and loathsome disease called the hemorrhoids—as God did the Philistines. 1Sa_5:6-7; 1Sa_5:12; 1Sa_6:4, where see notes. The disease was reproachful both in its nature and severity, for the purpose was, as stated, to “put them to endless shame.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 66. And he smote &c.] Render with R.V., And…
66. And he smote &c.] Render with R.V., And he smote his adversaries backward, a general allusion to the victories over the Philistines and other enemies of Israel under Samuel, Saul, and David. The A.V. follows Jewish authorities in seeing a reference to 1Sa_5:6 ff.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (66) He smote.—Possibly an allusion to 1Sa_5:9, or else…
(66) He smote.—Possibly an allusion to 1Sa_5:9, or else to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts;…
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts; rather, backward, so that they fled before him. (comp. Psa_40:14 Psa_70:2, etc.) There is no allusion to 1Sa_5:6-12. The reference is rather to the many victories of Israel over the Philistines, which began under Samuel, (1Sa_7:10) and continued under Saul and David. He put them to a perpetual reproach. Covered them, that is, with shame and disgrace. The shame culminated, perhaps, in David"s victory over Goliath. (1Sa_17:40-51)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder…
Ver. 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder parts. The emerods rendered them ridiculous, and their numerous defeats made them yet more so. They fled but were overtaken and wounded in the back to their eternal disgrace.
He put them to a perpetual reproach. Orientals are not very refined, and we can well believe that the haemorrhoids were the subject of many a taunt against the Philistines, as also were their frequent defeats by Israel until at last they were crushed under, never to exist again as a distinct nation.
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Ver. 66. He smote his enemies in the hinder parts. This has reference to the Philistines being smitten with haemorrhoids, or piles, whilst the ark was retained a captive by them, 1Sa 5:6, 12...The Greek version, as quoted by Suidas, is, he smote his enemies on the back parts of the seat; signifying, he says, a disease modestly expressed. John Gill.
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