Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 105:26
He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
26. Moses his servant ] Exo 14:31, and often.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He sent Moses his servant – He sent Moses to be his servant in delivering his people; that is, to accomplish the work which he had designed should be done.
And Aaron whom he had chosen – whom he had selected to perform an important work in delivering his people from bondage.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
To be the companion and interpreter of Moses in this expedition, of which see Exo 3:10; 4:12, &c. This clause he adds, to show that Aaron was no less called and chosen by God to this work than Moses, which otherwise was not so evident from the history; or this clause may belong to both Moses and Aaron.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
26. Moses . . . chosenbothwhat they were by divine choice (Ps78:70).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He sent Moses his servant,…. Into Egypt, to deliver his people Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians; in which, as in other things, he approved himself to be a faithful servant to the Lord; of this mission of his, see Ex 3:10. In this he was a type of Christ, who appeared in the form of a servant, and really was one; God’s righteous servant as Mediator, though his Son as a divine Person; sent by him to redeem his people out of worse than Egyptian bondage, from sin, Satan, the law, its curse and condemnation.
And Aaron whom he had chosen; to go along with Moses, to be a mouth for him, and a prophet to him, Ex 4:16, who also was a type of Christ, being a priest and good spokesman, chosen and called of God, a holy and an anointed one. The Targum is,
“in whom he was well pleased.”
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
26 He sent Moses his servant Here the prophet briefly adverts to such things regarding the deliverance of the people as were worthy of particular notice. Had the Egyptians of their own accord suffered the people to depart, neither the service of Moses nor miracles would have been required. God then appointed that their deliverance should take place in such a way, as would render the denial of his being its author impossible. Moses is called the servant of the Lord, to teach us that he was not self-elected to his office, and that he attempted nothing by his own authority, but, being the minister of God, executed the office with which he had been intrusted. The same thing is expressed still more plainly with respect to Aaron, when he is said to have been chosen What is attributed to each of these eminent men in particular, applies equally to both, and therefore the sentence ought to be explained thus: God sent Moses and Aaron, his servants, not because of their own intrinsic fitness, or because they spontaneously offered to him their service, but because he chose them. This passage teaches us, that those who are engaged in active and useful service for the Church, are not prepared exclusively by their own exertions, or framed to it by their own talents, but are stirred up thereto by God. Moses was a man of heroic virtue: but, considered merely in himself, he was nothing. Accordingly, the prophet would have all that is accounted worthy of remembrance in Moses, as well as in Aaron, to be ascribed to God alone. Thus it appears that whatever men do for the welfare of the Church, they owe the power of doing it to God, who, of his free goodness, has been pleased thus to honor them.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
It would swell this Commentary to a prodigious length, to go over the history, and the explanation of the events here recorded. I rather refer the Reader to the Bible, Exo 7 to Exo 10 . But while I beg the Reader to look back, and compare that scripture with this, I must not omit the opportunity here afforded to point to the spiritual illustration of the events themselves. Moses was but a type of Christ in all his commission. And the deliverance he wrought, in bringing Israel out of Egypt, was only a representation of Jesus delivering his people from the slavery of sin, death, hell, and the grave.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 105:26 He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
Ver. 26. He sent Moses his servant ] Quando duplieantur lateres, venit Moses, say the Jews at this day.
And Aaron, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Moses. Compare Psa 105:17 above, and the Structure. See Exo 3:10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 105:26-28. He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
So cowed were they by that awful darkness, that for a time they seemed to repent of their rebellion against the Lord.
Psa 105:29-30. He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
Though the fish could not live, the frogs could. When good was taken away, evil came. What a strange succession of miracles was this, the fish slain, but the frogs multiplied!
Psa 105:31-34. He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,
There is great sublimity in this expression. God had only to speak, and whole battalions of devouring locusts and caterpillars seemed to leap out of the earth, or to drop from the clouds: He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number.
Psa 105:35-37. And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
It was a notable miracle that, after all the oppression they had endured, they should be in such a state of health that there was not one feeble person among their tribes. When God makes his people march, he puts them into marching trim.
Psa 105:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
Yet this was the mighty nation whose proud king had defied the Lord. At last, they had had enough of the combat; they were glad that the people of God should retire out of their land, and they themselves bowed low before him. May we be taught humility of heart, so that we can sing the hymn I have chosen! Sovereign Ruler, Lord of all, Prostrate at thy feet I fall; Hear, oh, hear my earnest cry; Frown not, lest I faint and die!
This exposition consisted of readings from Exo 10:1-20; and Psa 105:26-38.
Fuente: Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible
Psa 105:26-36
Psa 105:26-36
ISRAEL DELIVERED FROM EGYPT
“He sent Moses his servant,
And Aaron whom he had chosen.
They set among them his signs,
And wonders in the land of Ham.
He sent darkness and made it dark;
And they rebelled not against his words.
He turned their waters into blood,
And slew their fish.
Their land swarmed with frogs
In the chambers of their kings.
He spake, and there came swarms of flies,
And lice in all their borders.
He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.
He smote their vines also, and their fig-trees,
And brake the trees of their borders.
He spake, and the locust came,
And the grasshopper, and that without number,
And did eat up every herb in the land,
And did eat up the fruit of the ground.
He smote also all the first-born in their land,
The chief of all their strength.”
First there is mentioned here the commission of Moses and Aaron for the purposes of the Exodus (Exodus 2-7).
Next, we find the account of the plagues which God visited upon Egypt as the time drew near for His deliverance of Israel from bondage. There were ten of these visitations, but only eight are mentioned in this psalm. “The sequence followed in the psalm Isaiah 9,1, 2,4, 3, -, -, 7,8, and 10. Note that 9 (the darkness) is mentioned first, 5,6 are omitted; and 4,3 change places.
The Genesis sequence is as follows:
Changing water into blood (Exo 7:20)
The plague of frogs (Exo 8:6)
The plague of lice (Exo 8:17)
The plague of flies (Exo 8:24)
The murrain of cattle (Exo 9:6)
Plague of boils and blains (Exo 9:10)
The plague of hail (Exo 9:22)
The plague of locusts ((Exo 10:13)
The plague of darkness (Exo 10:22)
The death of the first-born (Exo 12:29
“And they rebelled not against his words” (Psa 105:28). This is a very difficult verse. Certainly it cannot apply to the Egyptians; and the application of it to Moses and Aaron seems contraindicated; so what do we make of it? Frankly, we do not know. “If the `not’ in this passage is to stand, it must apply to Moses and Aaron; Professor Cheyne, however, following the Septuagint (LXX) boldly cancels the `not’.
“He smote their vines and their fig-trees” (Psa 105:33). “The skeptical objection that there were no vines in Egypt has long ago been given up.
E.M. Zerr:
Psa 105:26. Moses was sent to be the leader for the people in their escape from the land of Egypt. Aaron was sent to work with Moses and to be his spokesman.
Psa 105:27. They means Moses and Aaron. They worked together in performing the miracles that were to convince the Israelites first, then to bring about their enforced freedom.
Psa 105:28. Rebelled not is rendered “would not heed” in Moffatt’s translation, and the context justifies that wording. We know the Egyptians would not submit to God’s demands even at the plague of darkness.
Psa 105:29. This verse refers to one of the plagues sent on the Egyptians when they refused to let the children of Israel go. The history of it is in Exo 7:17-21.
Psa 105:30. This was the 2nd plague upon Pharaoh and his people. See Exo 8:5-7 for the original account to which this verse applies.
Psa 105:31. Since all of this history is so completely given in the book of Exodus, the query might arise why the Psalmist took up so much space repeating it. No specific statement can be cited in the Bible as an answer. We know, however, that many hundreds of years had gone by since those things occurred. In repeating them in such detail, David showed not only that the account of the transactions in Egypt was preserved down to his time, but that he believed it to be true, and that the Lord was worthy to be praised for the great work. The original account of this verse is in Exodus 8.
Psa 105:32. This was a regular thunderstorm with lightning. The marvelous phase of the case was the fact that it came at a specified time, and in Egypt where even an ordinary rain would have been regarded as wonderful.
Psa 105:33. Brake the trees means the foliage and fruit was stripped off the trees, not the body of the tree being broken down. In Exo 9:25 the trees were said to be broken, but in Ch. 10 :15 of that book it says that the locusts ate the fruit of the trees “which the hail had left.”
Psa 105:34-35. This paragraph is practically explained in the preceding one.
Psa 105:36. The firstborn of the Egyptians were the ones smitten. This distinction is made to prevent confusion over the pronouns later on in the chapter.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
sent: Psa 77:20, Exo 3:10, Exo 4:12-14, Exo 6:11, Exo 6:26, Exo 6:27, Jos 24:5, Mic 6:4, Act 7:34, Act 7:35
Aaron: Exo 7:1, Exo 7:12, Exo 28:1, Exo 28:2, Exo 28:12, Exo 28:29-38, Exo 29:5-46, Lev 8:7-36, Num 16:5-11, Num 16:40, Num 16:47, Num 16:48, Num 17:5, 1Sa 12:6
Reciprocal: Num 12:7 – My servant Deu 7:18 – remember Deu 34:11 – In all the signs Psa 103:7 – He made Psa 106:23 – his chosen Eze 16:6 – Live Hab 3:13 – with Joh 9:29 – know Act 13:17 – and with Heb 3:5 – as Rev 11:6 – have power over
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 105:26-27. He sent Moses, &c. When the tyranny and oppression of Pharaoh were at the highest, and Israel cried unto Jehovah because of the bondage, he remembered his promise to Abraham, and sent Moses, with Aaron, to effect that mighty deliverance, which was to be the grand pledge and figure of our redemption by Jesus Christ. They showed his signs among them Hebrew, , dibree othothaiv, 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.