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The classic M'Cheyne plan--read the Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalms or Gospels every day.

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2 Samuel 23

23 1 The last words of David. 6 The wicked shall be plucked up as thorns. 8 The names and facts of his mighty men. 15 He desired water, and would not drink it.

¹These also be the ^[a]last words of David, David the son of Jesse saith, even the man who was set up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet singer of Israel saith,

²The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my ^[b]tongue.

³The God of Israel spake to me, the strength of Israel said, Thou shalt bear rule over men, being just, and ruling in the fear of God.

⁴Even as the morning light when the sun riseth, the morning, I say, without clouds, so shall mine house be, and not as the ^[c]grass of the earth is by the bright rain.

⁵For so shall not mine house be with God: for he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, perfect in all points, and sure: therefore all mine health and whole desire is, that he will not make it ^[d]grow so.

⁶But the wicked shall be every one as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands.

⁷But the man that shall touch them, must be defenced with iron, or with the shaft of a spear: and they shall be burnt with fire in the same place.

⁸¶ These be the names of the mighty men whom David hath: He that sat in the seat of ^[e]wisdom, being chief of the princes, was Adino of Ezni, he slew eight hundred at one time.

⁹And after him was ^(A)Eleazar the son of Dodo, the son of Ahohi, one of the three worthies with David, when they ^[f]defied the Philistines gathered there to battle, when the men of Israel were ^[g]gone up.

¹⁰He arose and smote the Philistines, until his hand was weary, and his ^[h]hand clave unto the sword: and the Lord gave great victory the same day, and the people returned after him only to spoil.

¹¹After him was ^(B)Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite: for the Philistines assembled at a town, where was a piece of a field full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines.

¹²But he stood in the midst of the field, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: so the Lord gave ^[i]great victory.

¹³¶ Afterward three of the thirty captains went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam, and the host of the Philistines pitched in the valley of ^[j]Rephaim.

¹⁴And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

¹⁵And David ^[k]longed, and said, Oh, that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate.

¹⁶Then the three mighty brake into the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took and brought it to David, who would not drink thereof, but ^[l]poured it for an offering unto the Lord,

¹⁷And said, O Lord, be it far from me, that I should do this. Is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

¹⁸¶ ^(C)And Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred, ^[m]and slew them, and he had the name among the three.

¹⁹For he was most excellent of the three, and was their captain, but he attained not unto the first three.

²⁰And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son of ^[n]a valiant man, which had done many acts, and was of Kabzeel, slew two strong men of Moab: he went down also, and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in the time of snow.

²¹And he slew an Egyptian a ^[o]man of great stature, and the Egyptian had a ^[p]spear in his hand: but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

²²These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three worthies.

²³He was honorable among ^[q]thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David made him of his counsel.

²⁴¶ ^(D)Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem:

²⁵Shammoth the Harorite: Elika the Harodite:

²⁶Helez the ^(E)^[r]Paltite: Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite:

²⁷Abiezer the Anathothite: ^[s]Mebunnai the Hushathite:

²⁸Zalmon an Ahohite: Maharai the Netophathite:

²⁹Heleb the son of Baanah a Netophathite: Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin:

³⁰Benaiah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the river of Gaash:

³¹Abi-Albon the Arbathite: Azmaveth the Barhumite:

³²Eliahba the Shaalbonite: of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan:

³³Shammah the Hararite: Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite:

³⁴Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of Maachathi: Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite:

³⁵Hezrai the Carmelite: Paarai the Arbite:

³⁶Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah: Bani the Gadite:

³⁷Zelek the Ammonite: Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah:

³⁸Ira the Ithrite: Gareb the Ithrite:

³⁹Uriah the Hittite, ^[t]thirty and seven in all.

Galatians 3

3 1 He rebuketh them, for suffering themselves to be drawn from the grace of free justification in Christ, most lively set out unto them. 6 He bringeth in Abraham’s example, 10 declaring the effects, 21 and causes of the giving of the Law.

¹^[a]O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, to whom Jesus Christ before was described in your ^[b]sight, and among you crucified?

²This only would I learn of you, Received ye the ^[c]Spirit by the works of the Law, or by the hearing of ^[d]faith preached?

³^[e]Are ye so foolish, that after ye have begun in the Spirit, ye would now be made perfect by the ^[f]flesh?

⁴^[g]Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if so be it be even in vain.

⁵^[h]He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it through the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith preached?

⁶^[i]Yea rather as ^[j]Abraham believed God, and it was ^(A)imputed to him for righteousness.

⁷^[k]Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

⁸^[l]For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, ^(B)^[m]In thee shall all the Gentiles be ^[n]blessed.

⁹^[o]So then they which be of faith, are blessed with ^[p]faithful Abraham.

¹⁰^[q]For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the curse: ^[r]For it is written, ^(C)Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.

¹¹^[s]And that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God, it is evident: ^(D)for the just shall live by faith.

¹²^[t]And the Law is not of faith: but ^(E)the man that shall do those things, shall live in them.

¹³^[u]Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, made a curse for us, (^[v]for it is written, ^(F)^[w]Cursed is everyone that hangeth on tree.)

¹⁴^[x]That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

¹⁵^[y]Brethren, I speak as ^[z]men do: ^(G)though it be but a man’s covenant, when it is ^[aa]confirmed, yet no man doth abrogate it, or addeth anything thereto,

¹⁶Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, and to the seeds, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seed, as of one, ^[ab]which is ^[ac]Christ.

¹⁷^[ad]And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed afore of God ^[ae]in respect of Christ, the ^[af]Law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

¹⁸^[ag]For if the ^[ah]inheritance be of the Law, it is no more by the promise, but God gave it freely unto Abraham by promise.

¹⁹^[ai]Wherefore then serveth the Law? It was added because of the ^[aj]transgressions, ^[ak]till the seed came, unto the which the promise was made: ^[al]and it was ^[am]ordained by ^[an]Angels in the hand of a Mediator.

²⁰Now a Mediator is not a Mediator of one: ^[ao]but God is one.

²¹^[ap]Is the Law then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had been a Law given which could have given life, surely righteousness should have been by the Law.

²²But the ^[aq]Scripture hath ^(H)concluded ^[ar]all under sin, that the ^[as]promise by the faith of Jesus Christ should be given to them that believe.

²³^[at]But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under a garrison, and shut up unto ^[au]that faith, which should afterward be revealed.

²⁴Wherefore the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

²⁵But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

²⁶^[av]For ye are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.

²⁷^[aw]For all ye that are ^[ax]baptized into Christ, have ^[ay]put on Christ.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Grecian: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female: for ye are all ^[az]one in Christ Jesus.

²⁹And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.

Footnotes

Galatians 3:1 The third reason or argument taken of those gifts of the holy Ghost, wherewith they were endued from heaven after they had heard and believed the Gospel by Paul’s ministry: which seeing they were so evident to all men’s eyes, that they were as it were lively images, wherein they might behold the truth of the doctrine of the Gospel, no less than if they had beheld with their eyes Christ himself crucified, in whose only death they ought to have their trust, he marvelleth how it could be that they could be so bewitched by the false apostles.
Galatians 3:1 Christ was laid before you, so notably and so plainly, that you had his lively image as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you.
Galatians 3:2 Those spiritual graces and gifts, which were a seal as it were to the Galatians, that the Gospel which was preached to them was true.
Galatians 3:2 Of the doctrine of faith.
Galatians 3:3 The fourth argument mixed with [the former] and it is double, If the Law is to be joined with faith, this were not to go forward, but backward, seeing that those spiritual gifts which were bestowed upon you, are more excellent than any that could proceed from yourselves. And moreover, it should follow, that the Law is better than Christ, because it should perfect and bring to end that which Christ began only.
Galatians 3:3 By the (flesh) he meaneth the ceremonies of the Law, against which he setteth the Spirit, that is, the spiritual working of the Gospel.
Galatians 3:4 An exhortation by manner of upbraiding, that they do not in vain suffer so many conflicts.
Galatians 3:5 He repeateth the third argument which was taken of the effects, because he had interlaced certain other arguments by the way.
Galatians 3:6 The first argument which is of great force, and hath three grounds, The first, That Abraham was justified by faith, to wit, by free imputation of righteousness according to the promise apprehended by faith, as Moses doth most plainly witness.
Galatians 3:6 See Rom. 4.
Galatians 3:7 The second, that the sons of Abraham must be esteemed and accounted of by faith.
Galatians 3:8 The third, that all people that believe, are without exception, comprehended in the promise of the blessing.
Galatians 3:8 A proof of the first and second grounds, out of the words of Moses.
Galatians 3:8 Blessing in this place, signifieth the free promise by faith.
Galatians 3:9 The conclusion of the fifth argument: Therefore as Abraham is blessed by faith, so are all his children (that is to say, all the Gentiles that believe) blessed, that is to say, freely justified.
Galatians 3:9 With faithful Abraham, and not by faithful Abraham, to give us to understand that the blessing cometh not from Abraham, but from him, by whom Abraham and all his posterity is blessed.
Galatians 3:10 The sixth argument, the conclusion whereof is also in the former verse taken of contraries, thus, They are accursed which are of the works of the Law, that is to say, which value their [righteousness] by the performance of the Law. Therefore they are blessed which are of faith, that is, they which have righteousness by faith.
Galatians 3:10 A proof of the former sentence or proposition: and the proposition of this argument is this: Cursed is he that fulfilleth not the whole Law.
Galatians 3:11 The second proposition with the conclusion: But no man fulfilleth the Law. Therefore no man is justified by the Law, or else, which seek righteousness by the works of the Law. And there is annexed also this manner of proof of the second proposition, to wit, Righteousness and life are attributed to faith, Therefore no man fulfilleth the Law.
Galatians 3:12 Here is a reason shown of the former consequence: Because the law promiseth life to all that keep it, and therefore if it be kept, it justifieth and giveth life. But the Scripture attributing righteousness and life to faith, taketh it from the Law, seeing that faith justifieth by imputation, and the Law by the performing of the work.
Galatians 3:13 A preventing of an objection: How then can they be blessed, whom the Law pronounceth to be accursed? Because Christ sustained the curse which the Law laid upon us, that we might be quit from it.
Galatians 3:13 A proof of the answer by the testimony of Moses.
Galatians 3:13 Christ was accursed for us, because he bare the curse that was due to us, to make us partakers of his righteousness.
Galatians 3:14 A conclusion of all that was said before in the handling of the fifth and sixth reasons, to wit, that both the Gentiles are made partakers of the free blessing of Abraham in Christ, and also that the Jews themselves, of whose number the Apostle counteth himself to be, cannot obtain that promised grace of the Gospel, which he calleth the Spirit, but only by faith. And the Apostle doth severally apply the conclusion, both to the one and the other, preparing himself a way, to the next argument, whereby he declareth, that the one only seed of Abraham, which is made of all peoples can no otherwise be joined and grow up together, but by faith in Christ.
Galatians 3:15 He putteth forth two general [rules] before the next argument, which is the seventh in order: That one is, that it is not lawful to break covenants and contracts which are justly made and according to Law amongst men, neither may anything be added unto them: The other is, that God did so make a covenant with Abraham, that he would gather together his children which consist both of Jews and Gentiles into one body (as appeareth by that which hath been said before.) For he did not say, that he would be the God of Abraham and of his seeds, (which things notwithstanding should have been said, if he had many and divers seeds, as the Gentiles apart and the Jews apart,) but that he would be the God of Abraham, and of his seed, as of one.
Galatians 3:15 I will use an example which is common among you, that you may be ashamed you give not so much to God’s covenants, as you do to man’s.
Galatians 3:15 Authentical, as we call it.
Galatians 3:16 He putteth forth the sum of the seventh argument, to wit, that both the Jews and the Gentiles grow together into one body of the seed of Abraham, in Christ only, so that all are one in Christ, as it is afterward declared, verse 21.
Galatians 3:16 Paul speaketh not of Christ’s person, but of two peoples, which grew together in one, in Christ.
Galatians 3:17 The eighth argument taken of comparison, thus: If a man’s covenant (being authentical) be firm and strong, much more God’s covenant. Therefore the Law was not given to abrogate the promise made to Abraham, which had respect to Christ, that is to say, the end whereof did hang of Christ.
Galatians 3:17 Which tendeth to Christ.
Galatians 3:17 An enlarging of that argument, thus: Moreover and besides that the promise is of itself firm and strong, it was also confirmed with the prescription of long time, to wit, of 430 years, so that it could in no wise be broken.
Galatians 3:18 An objection: We grant that the promise was not abrogated by the covenant of the Law, and therefore we join the Law with the promise. Nay, saith the Apostle, these two cannot stand together, to wit, that the inheritance should both be given by the Law and also by promise, for the promise is free: whereby it followeth, that the Law was not given to justify, for by that means the promise should be broken.
Galatians 3:18 By this word (inheritance) is meant the right of the seed, which is, that God should be our God, that is to say, that by virtue of the covenant that was made with faithful Abraham, we that be faithful, might by that means be blessed of God as well as he.
Galatians 3:19 An objection which riseth of the former answer: If the inheritance be not by the Law (at the least in part) then why was the Law given, after that the promise was made? Therefore saith the Apostle, to reprove men of sin, and so teach them to look unto Christ, in whom at length that promise of saving all people together should be fulfilled, and not that the Law was given to justify men.
Galatians 3:19 That men might understand, by discovering of their sins, by the only grace of God, which he revealed to Abraham, and that in Christ.
Galatians 3:19 Until the partition wall was broken down, and that full seed sprang up, framed of two peoples, both of Jews and Gentiles: for by this word Seed, we may not understand, Christ alone by himself, but coupled and joined together with his body.
Galatians 3:19 A confirmation of the former answer taken from the manner and form of giving the Law: for it was given by Angels, striking a great terror into all, and by Moses a Mediator coming between. Now they that are one, need no Mediator, but they that are twain at the least, and that are at variance one with another. Therefore the Law itself and the Mediator, were witnesses of the wrath of God, and not that God would by this means reconcile men to himself, and abolish the promise, or add the Law unto the promise.
Galatians 3:19 Commanded and given, or proclaimed.
Galatians 3:19 By the service and ministry.
Galatians 3:20 A taking away of an objection, lest any man might say, that sometimes by consent of the parties which have made a covenant, something is added to the covenant, or the former covenants are broken. This, saith the Apostle, cometh to pass in God, who is always one, and the selfsame, and like himself.
Galatians 3:21 The conclusion uttered by a manner of asking a question, and it is the same that was uttered before, verse 17, but proceeding of another rule: so that the argument is new, and is this: God is always like unto himself: Therefore the Law was not given to abolish the promises. But it should abolish them if it gave life, for by that means it should justify, and therefore it should abolish that justification which was promised to Abraham and to his seed by faith. Nay it was rather given to bring to light the guiltiness of all men, to the end that all believers fleeing to Christ promised, might be freely justified in him.
Galatians 3:22 By this word, Scripture, he meaneth the Law.
Galatians 3:22 All men, and whatsoever cometh from man.
Galatians 3:22 In every one of these words, there lieth an argument against the merits of works, for all these words, promise, faith, Christ, might be given, to believers, are against merits, and not one of them can stand with deserving works.
Galatians 3:23 Now there followeth another handling of the second part of this Epistle: the state whereof is this: Although the Law (that is, the whole government of God’s house according to the Law) [does] not justify, is it therefore to be abolished, seeing that Abraham himself was circumcised, and his posterity held still the use of Moses’ Law? Paul affirmeth that it ought to be abolished, because it was instituted for that end and purpose, that is should be as it were a schoolmaster and keeper to the people of God, until the promise appeared in deed, that is to say, Christ, and the Gospel manifestly published with great efficacy of the Spirit.
Galatians 3:23 The cause why we were kept under the Law, is set down here.
Galatians 3:26 Because age changeth not the condition of servants, he addeth that we are free by condition, and therefore, seeing we are out of our childhood, we have no more need of a keeper and Schoolmaster.
Galatians 3:27 Using a general particle, lest the Jews at the least should not think themselves bound with the band of the Law, he pronounceth that Baptism is common to all believers, because it is a pledge of our delivery in Christ, as well to the Jews as to the Grecians, that by this means all may be truly one in Christ, that is to say, that promised seed to Abraham and inheritors of everlasting life.
Galatians 3:27 He setteth Baptism secretly against circumcision, which the false apostles so much bragged of.
Galatians 3:27 The Church must put on Christ, as it were a garment, and be covered with him, that it may be thoroughly holy, and without blame.
Galatians 3:28 You are all as one: and so in this great knot and conjunction signified.

Ezekiel 30

30 The destruction of Egypt and the cities thereof.

¹The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

²Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howl and cry, Woe be unto this day.

³For the day is near, and the day of the Lord is at hand, a cloudy day, and it shall be the time of the heathen.

⁴And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and fear shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, when they shall take away her multitude, and when her foundations shall be broken down.

⁵^[a]Ethiopia and Put, and Lud, and all the common people, and Chub, and the men of the land, that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

⁶Thus saith the Lord, They also that maintain Egypt, shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of ^[b]Syene shall they fall by the sword, saith the Lord God.

⁷And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

⁸And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

⁹In that day shall there messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Moors afraid, and fear shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh.

¹⁰Thus saith the Lord God, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel.

¹¹For he and his people with him, even the terrible nations shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

¹²And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hands of the wicked, and I will make the land waste, and all that therein is by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

¹³Thus saith the Lord God, I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their idols to cease out of ^[c]Noph, and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt, and I will send a fear in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in ^[d]Zoan, and I will execute judgment in No.

¹⁵And I will pour my wrath upon ^[e]Sin, which is the strength of Egypt: and I will destroy the multitude of ^[f]No.

¹⁶And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great sorrow, and No shall be destroyed, and Noph shall have sorrows daily.

¹⁷The young men of ^[g]Aven, and of ^[h]Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

¹⁸At Tehaphnehes the day ^[i]shall restrain his light, when I shall break there the ^[j]bars of Egypt: and when the pomp of her power shall cease in her, the cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁰¶ And in the ^[k]eleventh year, in the first month, and in the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

²¹Son of man, ^[l]I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall they put a roll to bind it, and so make it strong to hold the sword.

²²Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I come against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and will break ^[m]his arm that was strong, but is broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

²³And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

²⁴And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babel, and put my sword in his hand, but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall cast out sighings, as the sighings of him that is wounded before him.

²⁵But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babel, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down, and they shall know, that I am the Lord, ^[n]when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babel, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries, and they shall know, that I am the Lord.

Psalm 78:38-72

³⁸Yet he being merciful, ^[a]forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not, but oft times called back his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.

³⁹For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a wind that passeth and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness? and grieve him in the desert?

⁴¹Yea, they ^[b]returned and tempted God, and ^[c]limited the Holy one of Israel.

⁴²They ^[d]remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy,

⁴³Nor him that set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent ^[e]a swarm of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He ^[f]gave also their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the grasshopper.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, and their wild fig trees with the hailstone.

⁴⁸He gave their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to the thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of ^[g]evil angels.

⁵⁰He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life to the pestilence,

⁵¹And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, even the ^[h]beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of ^[i]Ham.

⁵²But he made his people to go out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³Yea, he carried them out safely, and they ^[j]feared not, and the Sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them unto the borders of his ^[k]Sanctuary: even to this Mountain which his right hand purchased.

⁵⁵^(A)He cast out the heathen also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt ^[l]falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸And they ^[m]provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to wrath with their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

⁶⁰So that he ^[n]forsook the habitation of Shiloh, even the Tabernacle where he dwelt among men,

⁶¹And delivered his ^[o]power into captivity, and his beauty into the enemy’s hand.

⁶²And he gave up his people to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

⁶³The fire ^[p]devoured their chosen men, and their maids were not ^[q]praised.

⁶⁴Their Priests fell by the sword, and their ^[r]widows lamented not.

⁶⁵But the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a strong man that after his ^[s]wine crieth out,

⁶⁶And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetual shame.

⁶⁷Yet he refused the tabernacle of ^[t]Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, and mount Zion which he loved.

⁶⁹And he ^[u]built his Sanctuary as an high palace, like the earth, which he established forever.

⁷⁰He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

⁷¹Even from behind the ewes with young, brought he him to feed his people in Jacob, and his inheritance in Israel.

⁷²So ^[v]he fed them according to the simplicity of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.

Footnotes

Psalm 78:38 Because he would ever have some remnant of a Church to praise his Name in earth, he suffered not their sins to overcome his mercy.
Psalm 78:41 That is, they tempted him oft times.
Psalm 78:41 As they all do that measure the power of God by their capacity.
Psalm 78:42 The forgetfulness of God’s benefits is the root of rebellion and all vice.
Psalm 78:45 This word signifieth a confused mixture of flies and venomous worms. Some take it for all sorts of serpents: some for all wild beasts.
Psalm 78:46 He repeateth not here all the miracles that God did in Egypt, but certain which might be sufficient to convince the people of malice and ingratitude.
Psalm 78:49 So called either of the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or else because they were wicked spirits, whom God permitted to vex men.
Psalm 78:51 The firstborn are so called, as Gen. 49:3.
Psalm 78:51 That is, Egypt: for it was called Mizraim, or Egypt of Mizraim that was the son of Ham.
Psalm 78:53 That is, they had none occasion to fear, forasmuch as God destroyed their enemies, and delivered them safely.
Psalm 78:54 Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself, and appointed to his people.
Psalm 78:57 Nothing more displeaseth God in the children, than when they continue in that wickedness, which their fathers had begun.
Psalm 78:58 By serving God otherwise than he had appointed.
Psalm 78:60 For their ingratitude he suffered the Philistines to take the Ark, which was the sign of his presence, from among them.
Psalm 78:61 The Ark is called his power and beauty, because thereby he defended his people, and beautifully appeared unto them.
Psalm 78:63 They were suddenly destroyed, 1 Sam. 4:10.
Psalm 78:63 They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not married.
Psalm 78:64 Either they were slain before, or taken prisoners of their enemies, and so were forbidden.
Psalm 78:65 Because they were drunken in their sins, they judged God’s patience to be a slumbering, as though he were drunken, therefore he answering their beastly judgment, saith, he will awake and take sudden vengeance.
Psalm 78:67 Showing that he spared not altogether the Israelites, though he punished their enemies.
Psalm 78:69 By building the Temple, and established the kingdom, he declareth that the signs of his favor were among them.
Psalm 78:72 He showeth wherein a king’s charge standeth: to wit, to provide faithfully for his people, to guide them by counsel, and defend them by power.

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