Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 105:27
They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
27. They shewed &c.] Moses and Aaron. But the parallel passages in Psa 78:43; Exo 10:2 (cp. Jer 32:20) make it probable that we should follow most of the Ancient Versions (LXX, Aq. Symm. Syr. Jer.) in reading the singular, He set; and this agrees better with the context, as Jehovah is the subject in Psa 105:24-26 ; Psa 105:28-29.
his signs ] Lit. the acts or matters of his signs (cp. the acts or matters of his wondrous works in Psa 145:5): i.e. his various signs: hardly, the words or message of his signs, “as being declarations of God’s will and command to let His people go.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
They shewed his signs among them – literally, They placed among them the words of his signs. So the margin. The reference is to the miracles performed in Egypt in bringing calamities upon the Egyptians to induce them to permit the children of Israel to go out from their bondage. They were the agents in setting these wonders before the Egyptians. The term words is employed here – the words of his signs – to keep up the idea that it was by the command of God that this was done, or by his word. It was by no power of their own, but only by the authority of God.
And wonders in the land of Ham – Miracles. Things suited to produce astonishment. See Psa 105:5.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. They showed his signs] Here is a reference to the plagues with which God afflicted the Egyptians. See the places in the margin, and the notes on them.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
His signs, Heb. the words of his signs; an emphatical expression. First they boldly declared the word and will of God concerning the several plagues, and then they actually inflicted them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27. signsliterally, “wordsof signs,” or rather, as “words” in Hebrewmeans “things,” “things of His signs,” that is,His marvellous tokens of power (Ps145:5, Margin). Compare the same Hebraism (Ps65:3, Margin).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They showed his signs among them,…. The Egyptians to whom they were sent; that is, Moses and Aaron did. In the original it is, “the words of his signs” x. They declared the words of God to them, that he would do such signs and wonders among them; or inflict such plagues upon them, in case they did not let Israel go: or they performed them according to the word of the Lord, as he commanded them, as well as taught the doctrines and instructions to be learned from them. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it in the singular number, though contrary to the Hebrew text, and understand it of God, “he put the words of his signs in them”; in Moses and Aaron; or gave them orders and power to perform them: he put them “in both”, as the Arabic version has it; or, “he did his signs by them”, as the Syriac version.
And wonders in the land of Ham; or Egypt, as in Ps 105:23, meaning the miracles of the plagues, which are next particularly mentioned, though not all of them: the plagues of the murrain, and of the boils and blains, are omitted; the reason of which, according to Aben Ezra, is, because Pharaoh did not seek to Moses to remove them; and the other eight that are mentioned are not placed in the order in which they were done, the last but one being observed first.
x “verba signorum suorum”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, &c.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
27. They set among them the words of his signs (223) The prophet, in the first place, briefly glances at those things which Moses has detailed at greater length. Nor does he follow the order of the events observed in the history; for he contents himself with showing, that the deliverance of the chosen people was the work of God. He again distinguishes between the power of God, and the ministry of Moses and Aaron. He indeed asserts that these men performed miracles, but these miracles proceeded from God, so that celestial power was not obscurely displayed by their instrumentality.
(223) “ The words of his signs, — i.e., declarations; which were afterwards confirmed by miracles.” — Cresswell. “In this phrase,” says Hammond, “ the words of his signs or prodigies, דברי, words, seems to be somewhat more than a pleonasm. God had told them what signs they should use, to convince the people first, and then Pharaoh, of their mission; and so in each judgment God commands, and they show the sign; and God’s thus telling or speaking to them is, properly, דברי, words, and the matter of these words expressed by אתותיו, signs or prodigies of his, — viz., which as he directed, he would also enable them to do among them.”
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(27) They shewed.Literally, They placed, i.e., did.
His signs.Literally (as in margin), the words of his tokens; but it may also be rendered, the details of his signs.(Comp. Psa. 65:3 : matters of iniquity, or, details of sin.) So here, details of signs, i.e., signs in detail or sequence, sign after sign.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
27. His signs Literally, the words of his signs; that is, the meaning of his miracles, which were the tokens of his supremacy and of his will.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 105:27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Ver. 27. They showed his signs ] Heb. the words of his signs; for God’s wondrous works are vocal, they are real sermons of God’s power and justice. See Exo 4:8 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
They. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read “He”. Compare Psa 78:43.
His signs = The words of His signs.
land of Ham: i.e. Egypt. Compare Psa 78:51; Psa 106:22.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
They: Psa 78:43-51, Psa 135:8, Psa 135:9, Exo 7:1 – Exo 11:10, Deu 4:34, Neh 9:10, Neh 9:11, Isa 63:11, Isa 63:12, Jer 32:20, Jer 32:21
his signs: Heb. words of his signs
wonders: Psa 105:23, Psa 106:22
Reciprocal: Gen 10:6 – And the Gen 14:5 – Zuzims Gen 15:14 – that Exo 3:20 – smite Exo 7:3 – multiply Deu 1:30 – according Deu 11:3 – General Deu 26:8 – the Lord Deu 29:2 – Ye have seen all Jos 24:5 – plagued Psa 78:12 – Marvellous Psa 89:10 – Thou hast Psa 111:6 – showed Isa 64:3 – thou didst Dan 4:3 – great Act 7:7 – the nation Act 7:36 – after