Psalms 78:66

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
smote	וַיַּךְ vai.yakh-	H5221	to strike (lightly or severely · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
enemies	צָרָ֥יו tza.Rav	H6862	narrow · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
parts	אָח֑וֹר 'a.Chor	H268	the hinder part · noun, common masculine singular absolute
put	נָ֣תַן Na.tan	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
perpetual	ע֝וֹלָ֗ם o.Lam	H5769	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
reproach	חֶרְפַּ֥ת cher.Pat	H2781	contumely · noun, common feminine singular construct

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Cross-references

1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts there…
Jeremiah 23:40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Job 40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice,…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:40–end

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last. Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hasten the punishment of it; yet let not those that are under divine rebukes for sin be discouraged from repentance, for their punishments are means of repentance, and shall not prevent the mercy God has yet in store for them. Observe, I. The sins of Israel in the wilderness again reflected on, because…

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John Gill on Psalms 78:66

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put to flight, and turned their backs, and so were smitten in their hinder parts; or rather this has reference to the Philistines being smitten with haemorrhoids, or piles in their posteriors, while the ark was retained a captive by them, 1 Samuel 5:6, and so the Targum paraphrases it, "and he smote them that troubled them with haemorrhoids in their posteriors;'' the Greek version, as quoted by Suidas (c), is, "he smote his enemies on the back parts of the seat"; signifying, he says, a disease, modestly expressed: he put them to a perpetual reproac…

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John Calvin on Psalms 78:59-66

Psalm 78:59-66 59. God heard it, and was wroth, and exceedingly abhorred Israel. 60. And he forsook the habitation of Shiloh, [358] the tabernacle where he dwelt among men. 61. And he delivered his strength into captivity, and his beauty into the hand of the enemy. 62. And he shut up his people to the sword, and was wroth with his own inheritance. 63. The fire devoured their chosen; [359] , and their virgins were not applauded. [360] 64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no Lamentations 65. But the Lord awoke as one asleep, as a mighty man that crieth out by reason of wine. 66. And he smote his enemies behind; he put upon them everlasting disgrace. 59 God heard it, and…

The Church Fathers

"And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts" [Psalm 78:66]: those, to wit, who were rejoicing that they were able to take His Ark: for they were smitten in their back-parts. [1 Samuel 5:6] Which seems to me to be a sign of that punishment, wherewith a man will be tortured, if he shall have looked back upon things behind; which, as says the Apostle, he ought to value as dung. [Philippians 3:8] For they that do so receive the Testament of God, as that they put not off from them the old vanity, are like the hostile nations, who did place the captured Ark of the Testament beside their own idols. And yet those old things even though these be unwilling do fall: for "all flesh is hay, and the glory of man as the flower of hay. The hay has dried up, and the flower has fallen off:" [Isaiah 40:6-7] but the Ark of the Lord "abides for everlasting," to wit, the secret testament of the kingdom of Heaven, where is the eternal Word of God. But they that have loved things behind, because of these very things most justly shall be tormented. For "everlasting reproach He has given to them." [Psalm 78:67].
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 78

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Psalms 78:66

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:40–end

John Gill on Psalms 78:66

John Calvin on Psalms 78:59-66

The Church Fathers

Psalms 78:66

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:40–end

John Gill on Psalms 78:66

John Calvin on Psalms 78:59-66

The Church Fathers

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 78:60–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 78:60

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 78:66