Psalms 106:13
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They soon forgat his works: They were in a hurry to forget.
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Psalms 106:13-15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They waited not for his counsel: But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. They had quails to eat. They had the food that they begged for, but their hearts were starved; their souls were famished. Ah! me, what people they were!
Psalms 106:14
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,.... Or, "lusted a lust" (p) as in Numbers 11:4 to which story there related this refers; they were not content with the manna they had every day, though very nourishing and of a sweet taste; they lusted after the fish and flesh of Egypt, and other things they ate there; so that this was not a natural lust,...
Psalms 106:14-15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. I do not know of anything more dreadful than that, — to be fattened without, and to be starved within; — to have everything that heart could wish for, and yet not to have the best thing that the heart ought to...
Psalms 106:15
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he gave them their request,.... Flesh and feathered fowl in great abundance; see Psalms 78:27. So God sometimes gives to wicked men what they ask for, as much as they can desire, yea, more than heart could wish. But sent leanness into their soul: or "body"; the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read, "he sent fulness...
Psalms 106:16
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They envied Moses also in the camp,.... That he should be generalissimo there, have the sole command of the people, and be their leader and chief magistrate. Gifts qualifying men for civil government are from the Lord, and these commonly draw the envy of others upon them; who, though they pretend patriotism and the good of their country, yet seek...
Psalms 106:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. These two men had done everything for the children of Israel; they had been the instruments in the hand of God of innumerable blessings to them; yet they envied Moses and Aaron.
Psalms 106:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They envied Moses also in the camp, Envy is a gaunt, lean, spectral thing; and when a soul is lean, it soon gets to be envious of others who are better than itself.
Psalms 106:16-20
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Aaron the saint of the LORD. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. What a descent it was to...
Psalms 106:16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. They began to pick holes in their character. Good men that lived for them, and were ready to die for them — they began to spit upon them.
Psalms 106:17
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,.... One of the heads of the conspirators against Moses and Aaron; the earth clave asunder under him and his company; opened itself, or its mouth, and devoured them at once. This was a new, marvellous, and unheard of thing, and which manifestly showed the divine displeasure and resentment at their...
Psalms 106:17-18
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. Jehovah’s mercy did not melt the people’s hard hearts, so perhaps the fear of his judgment would. God tried both methods with them, as he has done with us, for sometimes he has been very gracious to...
Psalms 106:17-20
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the wicked. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. See! they had been in Egypt. They had seen the Egyptians...
Psalms 106:18
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And a fire was kindled in their company,.... This seems to be the company of Korah, or however a part of it, the two hundred and fifty men that had censers, and so were of the Levitical race, as Korah was; this fire came from the Lord out of heaven. The flame burned up the wicked; the two hundred and fifty men with censers, Numbers 16:35, this was...
Psalms 106:19
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They made a calf in Horeb,.... A golden one, of the earrings of gold which were in the ears of their wives, sons, and daughters; these they took and melted down, and cast into the figure of a calf, or an ox, as it is afterwards said, in imitation of the Egyptians, who worshipped the ox; a people that had used them ill, from whose bondage they were...
Psalms 106:19-22
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. They forgot God their Saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. What was to become of such a people, provoking him again and again?
Psalms 106:20
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus they changed their glory,.... God, who is glorious in all the perfections of his nature, and is glory itself, and was the glory of these people; it was their greatest honour that they had knowledge of him, nearness to him, the true worship of him among them, and that they were worshippers of him; and who, though he is unchangeable in himself,...
Psalms 106:21
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They forgat God their Saviour,.... Not only forgat the works of God, Psalms 106:13, but forgat God that did those mighty works; forgat that there was a God; or however forgat him that is the only true and living God, when they said of the molten image, "these are thy gods, O Israel"; and what aggravated their crime was, they forgot that God that...
Psalms 106:21-23
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. You remember the intercession of Moses with the Lord,...
Psalms 106:21-23
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They forgot God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. They had found fault with Moses, yet Moses stood...