Psalm 106:24-46 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 106:13-33

This is an abridgment of the history of Israel's provocations in the wilderness, and of the wrath of God against them for those provocations: and this abridgment is abridged by the apostle, with application to us Christians (1 Cor. 10:5); for these things were written for our admonition, that we sin not like them, lest we suffer like them. I. The cause of their sin was disregard to the works and word of God, Ps. 106:13. 1. They minded not what he had done for them: They soon forgot his works,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 106:34-48

Here, I. The narrative concludes with an account of Israel's conduct in Canaan, which was of a piece with that in the wilderness, and God's dealings with them, wherein, as all along, both justice and mercy appeared. 1. They were very provoking to God. The miracles and mercies which settled them in Canaan made no more deep and durable impressions upon them than those which fetched them out of Egypt; for by the time they were just settled in Canaan they corrupted themselves, and forsook God.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:24

Yea, they despised the pleasant land ,.... Or "land of desire" F18 בארץ חמדה "in term desiderii", Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. ; the land of Canaan; a very delightful and desirable country, the glory of all lands, a land that abounded with everything for necessity and pleasure. The spies themselves, that brought an ill report of it, owned it was a land flowing with milk and honey; but that there were such difficulties to possess it which they thought insuperable: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:25

But murmured in their tents ,.... Throughout their tents; the murmuring was general; they murmured often; but what is here referred to seems to be their murmuring upon the report of the spies, Numbers 14:2 . To murmur against God and his providence is a very great evil; and which generally proceeds on one or other of these two things; either because men have not so much of the good things of this world as others have; or because they endure more afflictions, and so are ready to charge the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:26

Therefore he lifted up his hand against them ,.... A gesture used in swearing, Genesis 14:22 . So the Targum understands it here, "and he lifted up his hand with an oath, because of them:' and so it is interpreted by Aben Ezra, Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; and agrees with Numbers 14:28 . The same gesture was used by the Heathens in swearing, as by Latinus F19 "----Tenditque ad sidera dextram--Terram, mare, sidera juro", Virg. Aeneid. 12. . Or he lifted up his hand, in a way... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:27

To overthrow their seed also among the nations ,.... Their posterity was not overthrown in the wilderness; they were spared to possess the land their fathers despised. This respects later times, as does what follows: and to scatter them in the lands ; which Kimchi explains by the discomfiture of them by the Amalekites and Canaanites, when they presumed, contrary to the will of God, to go up to the top of the hill; and by Arad's taking some of them prisoner, afterwards, Numbers 14:45 .... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:28

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor ,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol in many countries; wherefore, to distinguish one from another, an additional name was used. Baalzephon was the god of the Egyptians; Baalzebub the god of the Ekronites; and here Baalpeor the god of the Moabites: for the fact referred to was committed when the children of Israel were on the borders of Moab, and when Balak sent for Balaam to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions ,.... Sin is an invention of man's: when our first parents sinned, they found out many inventions; and their posterity ever since have been inventors of evil things; and man's invention is very quick at that work. All false doctrine and false worship are of men's finding out; all idolatrous practices are their inventions, and which are here intended; see Psalm 106:39 . And these are very provoking to God, who is jealous of his glory,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:30

Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment ,.... When none else would, he rose up in great zeal for the Lord of hosts; and took on him the work of a civil magistrate, and slew two persons of noble birth in the very act of fornication. The Targum is, "he prayed' and so the Syriac version "he interceded with the Lord, that the plague might stop.' This he might do, as well as the other, though it is not elsewhere recorded, and in which he succeeded: but in the Talmud F25 T. Bab.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:31

And that was counted unto him for righteousness ,.... Not for his justifying righteousness before God; for all the works of righteousness done by the best of men cannot justify them before him, much less a single action: but his executing judgment in the manner he did, or slaying the above two persons, was esteemed a righteous action by the Lord himself; who upon it caused the plague to cease, and likewise gave to Phinehas the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, and to his posterity;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 106:13-33

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 106:34-48

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 106:31

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