Psalm 105:23-44

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 105:8-24

We are here taught, in praising God, to look a great way back, and to give him the glory of what he did for his church in former ages, especially when it was in the founding and forming, which those in its latter ages enjoy the benefit of and therefore should give thanks for. Doubtless we may fetch as proper matter for praise from the histories of the gospels, and the acts of the apostles, which relate the birth of the Christian church, as the psalmist here does from the histories of Genesis... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 105:25-45

After the history of the patriarchs follows here the history of the people of Israel, when they grew into a nation. I. Their affliction in Egypt (Ps. 105:25): He turned the heart of the Egyptians, who had protected them, to hate them and deal subtilely with them. God's goodness to his people exasperated the Egyptians against them; and, though their old antipathy to the Hebrews (which we read of Gen. 43:32; 46:34) was laid asleep for a while, yet now it revived with more violence than ever:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:23

Israel also came into Egypt ,.... That is, Jacob, as afterwards expressed, who had the name of Israel, from his wrestling with God and prevailing. He came into Egypt, being invited by Pharaoh, and having heard of his son Joseph being alive, and of his exaltation. And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham : the same with Egypt; Mizraim, from whence Egypt has its name, being the son of Ham, Genesis 10:6 . Hence Egypt is called by Plutarch F11 De Iside. Chemia; and Diodorus Siculus ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:24

And he increased his people greatly ,.... God increased the people of Israel greatly in the land of Egypt; they went down few, and became a populous nation; only sixty six persons, besides Jacob's sons' wives; and when they came out from thence were six hundred thousand footmen; yea, they increased the more they were afflicted, Exodus 1:12 . So the people of God in this world sometimes increase in number, and that even amidst the persecutions of their enemies; as the Christians did in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:25

He turned their heart to hate his people ,.... Whom before they loved and esteemed: when Pharaoh and his servants heard of Joseph's father and brethren, they were greatly pleased, and invited them into Egypt; and, when come, placed them in the land of Goshen; but when a new king arose, and a new generation, which knew not Joseph, the hearts of these were turned to hate them. This is said to be of the Lord: not that he put any hatred into them, there was no need of that; there is enough of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:26

He sent Moses his servant ,.... Into Egypt, to deliver his people Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians; in which, as in other things, he approved himself to be a faithful servant to the Lord; of this mission of his, see Exodus 3:10 . In this he was a type of Christ, who appeared in the form of a servant, and really was one; God's righteous servant as Mediator, though his Son as a divine Person; sent by him to redeem his people out of worse than Egyptian bondage, from sin, Satan, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:27

They showed his signs among them ,.... The Egyptians to whom they were sent; that is, Moses and Aaron did. In the original it is, "the words of his signs" F24 דברי אתותיו "verba signorum suorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, &c.; . They declared the words of God to them, that he would do such signs and wonders among them; or inflict such plagues upon them, in case they did not let Israel go: or they performed them according to the word of the Lord, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark ,.... The land of Egypt; either he, God, or it, darkness, made it dark, or it was made dark; the Targum is, "made them dark;' that is, the Egyptians; darkness was a messenger of the Lord's, who forms the light and creates darkness; it came at his word and covered all the land, excepting the dwellings of Israel; even a thick darkness that might be felt, so that the Egyptians could not see one another, nor rise from their place for three days together;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:29

He turned their waters into blood ,.... With which Egypt abounded; their streams, rivers, ponds, and pools, so that they had no water to drink; a just judgment upon them for shedding the innocent blood of infants, by drowning them in their rivers; this was the first of the ten plagues, Exodus 7:19 , with this compare the second and third vials poured out on spiritual Egypt, whereby blood will be given to antichrist, and to the antichristian states, for they are worthy, having shed so much... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 105:30

Their land brought forth frogs in abundance ,.... The land of Egypt, the moist, marshy, and watery places of it, the banks of the river Nile, out of the slime and mud of which these sprung; or, as Kimchi observes, wherever there were waters in the land there were frogs, for these came out of the streams, rivers, and ponds; this is the second plague, Exodus 8:3 . In the chambers of their kings ; that is, they came into the chambers of their kings; not that they were produced there; they... read more

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