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Selected Verse: Psalms 78:27 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 78:27 |
King James |
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He rained flesh also upon them as dust - The flesh of quails, Num 11:31. The word "rained" means that they seemed to come upon them like a copious shower. The word dust denotes their great abundance.
And feathered fowls - Margin, as in Hebrew, "fowl of wing." This is a poetic expression, designed to give beauty to the description by the image of their fluttering wings.
Like as the sand of the sea - An expression also designed to denote their great numbers, Gen 22:17; Gen 32:12; Gen 41:49; Jos 11:4; Sa1 13:5; Rev 20:8. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Fowl - But God took away from them the use of their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israelites. |
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.