Psalm 105
Verse 3 Glory - Glory in the God whom you serve, as the only true God. Verse 4 Seek - The Lord in his strength, in his sanctuary, or before the ark, which is called God's strength. Face - His gracious presence. Verse 5 Judgments - The punishments which he brought upon Egypt by his mere word. Verse 6 Of Jacob - The only branch of Abraham's seed to whom the following blessings belong. Verse 7 Judgments - God executes his judgments upon all nations and people. Verse 8 Remembered - So as to perform it. The word - The promise. Commanded - Established. Thousand generations - To all generations. Verse 9 Oath - Wherewith he ratified the covenant with Isaac, Gen 26:3. Verse 10 A law - That it might be as firm and irrevocable as a law. Verse 11 Lot - The portion assigned to you by lot. Verse 13 They went - Both in Canaan, where there were seven nations, and in Egypt. Verse 15 Anointed - My prophets, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who are called God's anointed, because they were consecrated to be his peculiar people, and to be kings and princes in their families. And they are called prophets, because God familiarly conversed with them and revealed his will to them, and by them to others. Verse 16 Staff of bread - Bread, which is the staff or support of our lives. Verse 19 His word - That word or revelation which came first to Pharaoh in a dream, and then to Joseph concerning the interpretation of it. Purged - From those calamities which were cast upon him, and so prepared the way for his release. Verse 23 Ham - Ham was the father of Mizraim, or the Egyptians, Gen 10:6. Verse 25 Turned - That is, suffered them, to be turned. Verse 28 They - Moses and Aaron, who inflicted that plague after Pharaoh had threatened them. Verse 30 Land - Their country. In chambers - Which entered into the chambers. Kings - Of Pharaoh and his sons, and his chief nobles and governors. Verse 31 Coasts - In all their land, even to the utmost borders of it. Verse 37 Feeble - Diseased or unable for his journey: which in so vast a body, and in a people who had been so dreadfully oppressed, was wonderful. Verse 39 Covering - To protect them from the heat of the sun. Verse 40 Quails - He speaks of the first giving of quails, Exo 16:13, which God gave them as a refreshment, notwithstanding their sin in desiring them, which he graciously pardoned. Bread - With manna which came out of the air, commonly called heaven. Verse 41 River - They flowed in channels which God provided for them, and followed the Israelites in their march. Verse 44 Labour - The fruits of their labour; their cities, vineyards, olive - yards.