Teks -- Psalms 78:17 (NET)

78:17 Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 78:17 - Wilderness

Where they had such singular obligations to obedience. This was a great aggravation of their sins.

JFB: Psa 78:17-20 - yet more

Literally, "added to sin," instead of being led to repentance (Rom 2:4).

Calvin: Psa 78:17 - Yet they continued still to sin against him

17.Yet they continued still to sin against him The prophet, having briefly declared how God, by a continual succession of benefits, had clearly manifested the greatness of his love towards the children of Abraham, now adds, that after having been laid under such deep and solemn obligations to him, they, as was natural to them, and according to their customary way, wickedly rebelled against him. In the first place, he accuses them of having provoked him grievously, by pertinaciously adding iniquity to iniquity; and then he points out the particular kind of the provocation with which they were chargeable. By the word provoke, he intimates, that it was no light offense which they had committed, but wickedness so heinous and aggravated as not to be endured. From the place in which it was committed, he aggravates the enormity of the sin. It was in the very wilderness, whilst the remembrance of their deliverance was yet fresh in their memory, and where they had every day full in their view tokens of the presence of God, and where even necessity itself should have constrained them to yield a true and holy obedience — it was in that place, and under these circumstances, that they repressed not their insolence and unbridled appetite. ³²⁵ It was then, certainly, a proof of monstrous infatuation for them to act in such a wanton and disgraceful manner as they did, at the very time when their want of all things should have proved the best remedy for keeping them under restraint, and to do this even in the presence of God, who presented before them such manifestations of his glory as filled them with terror, and who allured them so kindly and tenderly to himself.

TSK: Psa 78:17

Psa 78:32, Psa 95:8-10, 106:13-32; Deu 9:8, Deu 9:12-22; Heb 3:16-19

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Poole: Psa 78:17

Where they had such strong and singular obligations to obedience, both from the great things which God had then and there done for them, and from their dependence upon God’ s favour and help for their safety and subsistence. This was a great aggravation of their sin and folly.

PBC: Psa 78:17

According to Ps 78:17-18, David says that Israel tempted Jehovah in the wilderness: "And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust." This correlates with Isa 63:10, when he used the terminology, "But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them." These two verses, together, teach that the Holy Spirit is God. De 32:12 tells us, "So the LORD alone did lead him," while Isa 63:14 reads, "... the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name." Both Moses and Isaiah equate the Spirit of God as being the LORD Jehovah Himself. Thus, the Holy Spirit is taught in God’s inspired word as being equivalent to, and co-essential, co-eternal, and co-equal with the Supreme Sovereign God.

PBtop: THE DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT A Brief Study

Gill: Psa 78:17 - And they sinned yet more against him // by provoking the most High in the wilderness

And they sinned yet more against him,.... Or, "and they added yet to sin against him" ^c; which was great ingratitude; they had sinned before, and it might have been hoped that the goodness of God to them would have engaged them to have sinned no more, at least at such a rate, and in such a manner, as they had done; but instead of sinning less, they sinned more and more, they added sin to sin; such is the corrupt heart of man, notwithstanding the grace of God, and the blessings of it vouchsafed unto him:

by provoking the most High in the wilderness; everything is aggravating; the object against whom they sinned was the most High, which betrays their impiety, folly, and vanity; and they did not slightly sin against him, but did those things which were highly provoking and exasperating; and that in the wilderness, where they received so many favours, and where they must have been starved and perish, and could not have lived, without immediate provision, support, and protection, from the hand of the Lord.