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Selected Verse: Psalms 78:22 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 78:22 |
King James |
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
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] |
| (Compare Heb 8:8-9). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Because they believed not in God - They did not believe in his power, or in his promises.
And trusted not in his salvation - In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant evidence of that power, but they still doubted his ability to save them, notwithstanding all that he had done for them. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
trusted
(See Scofield) - (Psa 2:12). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Trusted not - That he both could, and would save them from the famine which they feared. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They believed not in God - After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, consequently, they did not trust in his salvation - did not expect the glorious rest which he had promised them. Their descendants in the present day are precisely in this state. Multitudes of them disbelieve the Divine origin of their law, and have given up all hopes of a Messiah. |
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.