Click
here to show/hide instructions.
Instructions on how to use the page:
The commentary for the selected verse is is displayed below.
All commentary was produced against the King James, so the same verse from that translation may appear as well. Hovering your mouse over a commentary's scripture reference attempts to show those verses.
Use the browser's back button to return to the previous page.
Or you can also select a feature from the Just Verses menu appearing at the top of the page.
Selected Verse: Psalms 105:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 105:23 |
King James |
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Israel . . . and Jacob--that is, Jacob himself is meant, as Psa 105:24 speaks of "his people." Still, he came with his whole house (Gen 46:6-7).
sojourned-- (Gen 47:4).
land of Ham--or, Egypt (Psa 78:51). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Israel also came into Egypt - Another name for Jacob; see Psa 105:10.
And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham - Not as a permanent abode, but as a temporary arrangement, until the time should come for the people to be removed to the land of promise. See Gen 46:6. The more literal rendering would be, "Jacob was a stranger - a foreigner - in the land of Ham." On the meaning of the word "Ham," see the notes at Psa 78:51. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Ham - Ham was the father of Mizraim, or the Egyptians, Gen 10:6. |
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.