John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 78:67
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, 1 Samuel 7:1 , so the Targum, "and he rejected the tabernacle which he had stretched out in the border of Joseph;' he... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 78:66
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts ,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put to flight, and turned their backs, and so were smitten in their hinder parts; or rather this has reference to the Philistines being smitten with haemorrhoids, or piles in their posteriors, while the ark was retained a captive by them, 1 Samuel 5:6 , and so the Targum paraphrases it, "and he smote them that troubled them with haemorrhoids in... read more