Psalms 106:42
in Psalms 106Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.
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ASV
Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
KJV
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
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This verse in Psalms 106
Commentary
6 notes on this verseTheir enemies also oppressed them. This was according to their nature; an Israelite always fares ill at the hands of the heathen. Leniency to Canaan turned out to be cruelty to themselves. And they were brought into subjection under their hand. They were bowed down by laborious bondage, and made to lie low under tyranny. In their God they had found a kind master, but in those with whom they had perversely sought fellowship they found despots of the most barbarous sort. He who leaves his God leaves happiness for misery.
This site's exposition
the anger of the LORD burned
on Psalms 106:40-46
The anger of the LORD burned, and He abhorred His own inheritance. He handed them to nations that hated them, and verse 43 puts the cycle in one line, many rescues and a people bent on rebellion. He heard their cry, remembered His covenant, and relented.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Insomuch that He abhorred His own inheritance; and He gave them over into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them were lords over them" [Psalm 106:41]: "and their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought low under their hands" [Psalm 106:42]. Since he has called them the inheritance of God, it is clear that He abhorred them, and gave them over into their enemies' hands, not in order to their perdition, but for their discipline.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Observe here how the punishment answered to the sin: They mingled with the heathen and learned their works; from them they willingly took the infection of sin, and therefore God justly made use of them as the instruments of their correction. Sinners often see themselves ruined by those by whom they have suffered themselves to be debauched.
Their enemies also oppressed them,.... By taxes, and taking the increase of their fields and sustenance, which often obliged them to cry for a deliverer, who upon this was sent to them; see Jdg 2:9. And they were brought into subjection under their hand; or were humbled under their hand, as the Targum; they were not only made to submit to their enemies, but they were humbled before the Lord; brought to a sense of their sins, and acknowledgment of them, when the Lord appeared for their deliverance, as follows.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Their enemies also oppressed them - Septuagint, “Afflicted them,” They invaded their country; they destroyed their vintages; they laid desolate their land; they made them captives. And they were brought into subjection - Hebrew, made to bow.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּלְחָצ֥וּם | vaiyilchatzum | and they oppressed them | H3905 → | |
| אוֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם | ʾoyveihem | enemies their | H341 → | 282 times |
| וַ֝יִּכָּנְע֗וּ | vaiyikaneu | and they were humbled | H3665 → | 36 times |
| תַּ֣חַת | tachat | under | H8478 → | 505 times |
| יָדָֽם׃ | yadam | hand their | H3027 → | 1618 times |
וַיִּלְחָצ֥וּםand they oppressed them
vaiyilchatzumH3905 →
אוֹיְבֵיהֶ֑םenemies their
ʾoyveihemH341 →282 times
וַ֝יִּכָּנְע֗וּand they were humbled
vaiyikaneuH3665 →36 times
תַּ֣חַתunder
tachatH8478 →505 times
יָדָֽם׃hand their
yadamH3027 →1618 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Judges 4:3Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
it leads to
- Judges 1:19
The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
- Judges 3:9
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.
- Deuteronomy 28:29
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to…
- 1 Samuel 7:8
and said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
- Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- Judges 1:19
Through
Judges 10:12Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
it leads to
- Judges 6:3
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- 2 Chronicles 26:6–7
Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he built cities near Ashdod and among the Philistines.
- Judges 5:19–31
Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
- Judges 6:3
Where this verse is studied
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 106; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 5; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.