Teks -- Psalms 78:63 (NET)

78:63 Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.

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

JFB: Psa 78:63 - fire

Either figure of the slaughter (1Sa 4:10), or a literal burning by the heathen.

JFB: Psa 78:63 - given to marriage

Literally, "praised"--that is, as brides.

Clarke: Psa 78:63 - Their maidens were not given to marriage

Their maidens were not given to marriage - הוללו hullalu , were not celebrated with marriage songs. It is considered a calamity in the east if a maiden arrives at the age of twelve years without being sought or given in marriage.

TSK: Psa 78:63 - fire // maidens // given to marriage

fire : Psa 78:21; Deu 29:20, Deu 32:22

maidens : Isa 4:1; Jer 7:34, Jer 16:9, Jer 25:10

given to marriage : Heb. praised

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

Poole: Psa 78:63

Because the young men who should have married them were slain. Heb. were not praised , to wit, with marriage songs, which was usual at marriage solemnities among the Jews, as appears from Jer 7:34 16:9 25:10 .

Gill: Psa 78:63 - The fire consumed their young men // and their maidens were not given to marriage

The fire consumed their young men,.... Not Nadab and Abihu, as some of the Jewish Rabbins interpret it, of which Jarchi makes mention; but the young men, the choice, the flower, of the Israelitish army, which engaged with the Philistines in the times of Eli; and the fire that consumed them is not to be understood of material fire, or of extraordinary fire from heaven, but either of the wrath of God, as Jarchi, or of the flaming glittering sword of the enemy, which consumed them like fire; see Num 21:28.

and their maidens were not given to marriage; the young men to whom they should have been married, and to whom they might have been espoused, being slain in battle: or, "were not honoured" ^a; that with marriage, which is honourable to all, Heb 13:4, or "were not praised" ^b; were not attended with epithalamies and nuptial songs, such as used to be sung at the time of marriage; hence, as Kimchi observes, the nuptial chamber is called בית הלולא, "the house of praise"; and so frequently, when a great calamity is threatened or described, it is said, the voice of the bride and bridegroom is not heard; see Jer 16:9.