Psalms 105:14

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
suffered	יָנַח yânach	H3240	to deposit
man	אָדָ֣ם 'a.Dam	H120	ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species · noun, common masculine singular absolute
wrong	לְעָשְׁקָ֑ם le.'a.she.Kam	H6231	to press upon · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
reproved	וַיּ֖וֹכַח vai.Yo.khach	H3198	to be right (i.e. correct) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
kings	מְלָכִֽים me.la.Khim	H4428	a king · noun, common masculine plural absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
Exodus 7:16-17 And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wil…
Genesis 12:14-17 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
Genesis 20:1-7 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 26:14-33 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 31:24-29 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:8-24

We are here taught, in praising God, to look a great way back, and to give him the glory of what he did for his church in former ages, especially when it was in the founding and forming, which those in its latter ages enjoy the benefit of and therefore should give thanks for. Doubtless we may fetch as proper matter for praise from the histories of the gospels, and the acts of the apostles, which relate the birth of the Christian church, as the psalmist here does from the histories of Genesis and Exodus, which relate the birth of the Jewish church; and our histories greatly outshine theirs. Two things are here made the subject of praise: - I. God's promise to the patriarchs, that great promi…

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John Gill on Psalms 105:14

He suffered no man to do them wrong,.... Though strangers and unsettled, and moving from place to place; and few in number, and weak and defenceless. Thus the herdsmen of Gerar were not suffered to do any harm to Isaac and his herdsmen; but, on the contrary, the king of the place, with some of his chief men, sought an alliance, and entered into one with Isaac. Thus Laban was not suffered to hurt Jacob, nor the Sichemites to hurt him and his sons; the terror of God falling on all the cities round about, Genesis 26:20. The people of God are in this world exposed to the injuries of the men of it, being as sheep among wolves; and it is often in the power of their hands to hurt them, as it was in…

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John Calvin on Psalms 105:12-15

Psalm 105:12-15 12. When they were but very few in number; and strangers in it. 13. And walked about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. 14. He did not suffer men to hurt them; and rebuked kings for their sake; 15. Saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no wrong. [210] 12. When they were but very few in number The prophet here recounts the benefits which God had conferred upon the holy fathers from the commencement, to manifest that even long before the deliverance from Egypt, the covenant was not ineffectual. The great object aimed at in this recital, is to show that ever since God took Abraham under his protection, he cherished him in a wonderfu…

The Church Fathers

He did not permit man to harm them. Pharaoh, that he should harm Abraham in the person of Sarah, nor Abimelech Isaac in the person of Rebecca. And he rebuked kings for their sake. He says the same thing, Pharaoh and Abimelech.
— Jerome, Homily 31, on Psalm 104

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Abraham — Father of a multitude, son of Terah, named (Gen. 11:27) before his older brothers Nahor and Haran, because he was the heir of the promises. Till the age of seventy, Abram sojourned among his kindred…
Jews, The · Under God’s special protection — Under God’s special protection
Pharaoh · 1. King of Egypt at the time of Abraham — 1. King of Egypt at the time of Abraham

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 105:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:8-24

John Gill on Psalms 105:14

John Calvin on Psalms 105:12-15

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 105:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 105:8-24

John Gill on Psalms 105:14

John Calvin on Psalms 105:12-15

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 105:12-15

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 105:12-15

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 105:14