Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 105:11
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:Lot — The portion assigned to you by lot. read more
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:Lot — The portion assigned to you by lot. read more
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;They went — Both in Canaan, where there were seven nations, and in Egypt. read more
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.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. read more
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.Staff of bread — Bread, which is the staff or support of our lives. read more
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.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. read more
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.Ham — Ham was the father of Mizraim, or the Egyptians, Genesis 10:6. read more
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.Turned — That is, suffered them, to be turned. read more
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.They — Moses and Aaron, who inflicted that plague after Pharaoh had threatened them. read more
1. Oh give thanks This verse is the same as Isaiah 12:4. The one is copied from the other. Three particular modes of glorifying God are mentioned. The first is a personal offering to God of praise and thanksgiving; the second, prayer, as Genesis 4:26; Psalms 116:12; Psalms 116:17; the third to declare, teach, cause to be known among the people, (the nations) his deeds, Psalms 107:22 read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 105:10
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:A law — That it might be as firm and irrevocable as a law. read more