Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 136:16
To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] forever.
16. Cp. Deu 8:15.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
16 22. Jehovah the Giver of the promised land. Cp. Psa 135:10 ff.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
To him which led his people through the wilderness – For all the manifestations of his care during a period of forty years.
For his mercy … – That is, his mercy was to be measured by all the protection extended over them; by all the provision made for their needs; by all that God did to defend them; by all his interposition when attacked by their enemies; by safely bringing them to the land to which he had promised to conduct them.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. Which led his people through the wilderness] It was an astonishing miracle of God to support so many hundreds of thousands of people in a wilderness totally deprived of all necessaries for the life of man, and that for the space of forty years.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Through the wilderness; through that vast howling wilderness, where there was neither way nor provision; through which none but the Almighty God could have safely conducted them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
To him which led his people through the wilderness,…. Where there was no path. This the Lord did by going before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, to show them the way in which they should go, Ex 13:21; see Ps 78:14;
for his mercy [endureth] for ever; among the manifold mercies of God, shown to Israel in the wilderness, this is one taken notice of by Nehemiah, Ne 9:19; that the pillar of cloud and fire, to direct them, never departed from them while in it: and this act of “leading” them not only includes the guidance of them in the way, but the provision made for them; of water out of the rock, and of manna that fell about their tents every day; and of flesh and feathered fowl, like dust, so that they wanted nothing; and also the protection of them from their enemies: all which were proofs of his constant care over them, and continual mercy to them; see Ps 78:15.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
16. See Exo 13:18; Deu 8:15. Leading the people in the desert was as great a miracle as the exodus or the overthrow of the kings.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
Ver. 16. To him which led his people ] As a horse, that they should not stumble, Isa 63:13 ; as a shepherd his sheep; providing for them so, as never was any prince so served in his greatest pomp.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 77:20, Exo 13:18, Exo 15:22, Num 9:17-22, Deu 8:2, Deu 8:15, Neh 9:12, Neh 9:19, Isa 49:10, Isa 63:11-14
Reciprocal: Deu 32:12 – the Lord Psa 107:7 – he led Jer 2:17 – when he Jer 31:2 – found Act 7:36 – and in the wilderness
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
136:16 To him which led his people through the {e} wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
(e) Where for the space of forty years he showed infinite and most strange wonders.