Psalms 105

God sometimes delivers his people in that very way they think he will destroy. In bringing Israel out of Egypt, God stirred up the hearts of the Egyptians to hate them (Psalm 105:22). And that was the means of their deliverance.

The people that are with you are too many: he reduces the army of thirty-two thousand to three hundred, and by taking away the means of victory, makes Israel victorious. God had a design to bring his people out of Egypt, and a strange course he takes to effect it: he stirred up…

It was not only pleasant for situation and fruitfulness, but because God's children, who were his Hephsibab or delight, lived there. 3. He charges the great ones of the world not to prejudice his children; their persons are sacred (Psalm 105:14). He suffered no man to do them wr…

Sometimes a bad cause prevails and gets ground, it is not to be liked because it does prevail; we must not think the better of what is sinful because it is successful, here is no rule of our actions to be directed by. 4. Divine providence is irresistible, there is no standing in…

God brings us low before he raises us; as water is at the lowest ebb before there is a spring tide. (1.) It is true in a temporal sense: When God would bring Israel to Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, he first leads them through a sea and a wilderness; when God intend…

And David, a man after God's own heart, 1 Samuel 13:14. And them all, his anointed and dear chosen children, Psalm 105:15. Thus God has testified of them in his word.

When the king's favorite is struck at, the king himself is struck at (2 Kings 19:22). I know your rage against me: The rage of Sennacherib was against the person of Hezekiah, but (there being a league between God and his people) the Lord took it as done to himself, I know your r…

Exodus 32:13: Moses prays that God would respect his people for Abraham's sake, and for Isaac and Israel his servants, who were not then living. Answer: Moses prays God to be merciful to the people not for the intercession of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but for his covenant's sak…

The Lord made his people to be pitied of all those that carried them captives, (Psalm 106:46). The Lord turned the hearts of the Egyptians, to hate his people, (Psalm 105:25). War and peace are from the free wills of men, as second causes, yet the Lord says, according to his abs…

So (Luke 4:36): "What a word is this? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out." So of Joseph it is said (Psalm 105:19): "until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him." That is his power and influence on the hearts of t…

The fourth is, peace in respect of our enemies. For the decree of God is, Touch not my anointed, and do my Prophets no harm (Psalm 105:15). Again, all things turn to the good of them that love God (Romans 8:28).

Now the history of the four kings which he put to flight and discomfited is notorious. We may also extend it to Pharaoh and Abimelech (Genesis 12:17 and 20:3), whereof the Prophet expressly speaks in Psalm 105: for the Lord rebuked and chastised them, in that they durst venture…

So at the 19th verse, in that agreement between Abimelech and Isaac, they conclude thus, That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good: so that to touch notes the least ill or hurt that can be, we have not touched you, that…

4. An eminent joy resulting from these, which cannot be shaken, all the former being in an eminent degree. 4. Observation. That it is incumbent to the believer who has chosen Christ, sometimes to boast in him, and in a lovely and holy way to vaunt and boast (if we may so speak)…

Though perhaps you have not a bunch of grapes in the way, (I mean that joy which some meet with) yet it is happy that you are in the way. Bless God that while some lie in the [reconstructed: total] neglect of duty, God has given you a heart to seek him (Psalm 105:3). [reconstruc…

He very gently reproved their wickedness; and they say upon it, "This fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a ruler and a judge," and threatened what they would do to him. But God wonderfully preserved Abraham and Lot, Isaac and Jacob, and their families, amongst them,…

As long as people have bread and water they will not famish; but take away bread once, and the spirit of man fails. Upon this account bread is called a staff (Psalm 105:16), because what a staff is to an aged or feeble man, that bread is to the faint and feeble spirits, which ev…

They are limited as the Sea, and so the Lord in a providential way speaks to them, Hitherto shall you go, and no further. Sometimes he ties them up so short, that they cannot touch his people, though they have the greatest opportunities and advantages, Psalm 105:12, 13, 14, 15.…

3. That buffeting and that of a froward master is to be borne: therefore much more lighter correction of a good and gentle master. Joseph patiently endured fetters, and iron chains, and imprisonment inflicted upon him most unjustly, even for his faithfulness to his master (Psalm…

The afflictions of the gospel are called temptations. And so, by delay of promises; God tries us, sometimes by delaying the accomplishment of his promise; as in (Psalm 105:19), Until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him; that is, until the promise was fulf…

Will a King endure to have his Robes spit upon, or his Crown-royal thrown in the dust? Psalm 105:14. He reproved Kings for their sakes.

Not so much delightful for the fruit growing in it, as for the Saints living in it. 3. God so loves his Children that he chargeth the great ones of the World upon pain of death not to hurt them: their persons are sacred, Psalm 105:14. He reproved Kings for their sakes, saying, T…

What do we seek for? Union and communion with God, Psalm 105:4. Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his face for evermore. It is an allusion to the ark which was a pledge of God's favorable and powerful presence; so that which we seek after, is God's favorable and powerful pres…

It would be a great loss not to obey present impulses, and invitations, and not make use of the advantages which God puts into our hands. 2. Seek him daily (Psalm 105:4). Seek the Lord and his strength: seek his face evermore.

The word is used in Scripture either for laws enacted, or judgments executed according to those laws. The one may be called the judgments of his mouth, as Psalm 105:5. Remember the marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth: the other, the judg…

Doctrine. God's people, those that have made him their portion, they earnestly, and constantly, above all things, desire his favor. 1. This God calls for, (Psalm 105:4). Seek the Lord, seek his face evermore. None have such communion with God but they need seek more.

It is work fit for a Julian to suppress the orthodox ministry and open the temple of the idol. The Romans sacked the city of Corinth and razed it to the ground for an insult offered to their ambassador; God will avenge the affronts offered to his ministers (Psalm 105:15). If sou…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…

(Acts 2:24): having loosed the pains of death [Greek text], as a King by authority and judicially looses a prisoner from his fetters, having no more to say against him. (Psalm 105:20): The King sent and loosed him. (Isaiah 50:8): He is near that justifies me, who is he that cont…

You will say, How shall we daily thus remember God? I answer; faith wonderfully helps us in this kind by giving us daily to seek God and his face; and that makes us remember him (Psalm 105:3-4). Their hearts shall rejoice that seek God.