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Selected Verse: Psalms 76:5 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 76:5 |
King James |
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. |
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] |
slept their sleep--died (Psa 13:3).
none . . . found . . . hands--are powerless. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The stout-hearted are spoiled - The valiant men, the men who came so confidently to the invasion. The word "spoiled" here, as elsewhere in the Scriptures, means "plundered," not (as the word is now used) "corrupted." See the notes at Col 2:8.
They have slept their sleep - They are dead; they have slept their last sleep. Death, in the Scriptures, as in all other writings, is often compared with sleep.
And none of the men of might - The men who came forth for purposes of war and conquest.
Have found their hands - The Septuagint renders this, "Have found nothing in their hands;" that is, they have obtained no plunder. Luther renders it, "And all warriors must suffer their hands to fall." De Wette, "Have lost their hands?" The idea seems to be, that they had lost the use of their hands; that is, that they had no use for them, or did not find them of any use. They could not employ them for the purpose for which they were intended, but were suddenly stricken down. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Sleep - Even a perpetual sleep. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The stout-hearted are spoiled - The boasting blasphemers, such as Rab-shakeh, and his master Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
They have slept their sleep - They were asleep in their tent when the destroying angel, the suffocating wind, destroyed the whole; they over whom it passed never more awoke.
None of the men of might - Is not this a strong irony? Where are your mighty men? their boasted armor, etc.? |
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.