Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
22. For a moment they had believed (Exo 14:31), but they soon fell away. Cp. Num 14:11, a verse which might serve as a motto for this Psalm. his salvation ] Of which they had had such marvellous proof in the Exodus (Exo 14:13; Exo 15:2).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Because they believed not in God – They did not believe in his power, or in his promises.
And trusted not in his salvation – In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant evidence of that power, but they still doubted his ability to save them, notwithstanding all that he had done for them.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. They believed not in God] After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, consequently, they did not trust in his salvation – did not expect the glorious rest which he had promised them. Their descendants in the present day are precisely in this state. Multitudes of them disbelieve the Divine origin of their law, and have given up all hopes of a Messiah.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
That he both could and would save them from the famine and destruction which they feared.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. (Compare Heb 8:8;Heb 8:9).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Because they believed not in God,…. That he was able to give them bread, and provide flesh for them, or bring them through the wilderness to Canaan’s land, as he had promised. God, and he only, is the object of faith, and he is to be believed in at all times, and for all things temporal and spiritual; and nothing is more displeasing to him than unbelief; for as faith gives glory to him, unbelief reflects dishonour upon him; faith sets its seal to him as true, but unbelief makes him a liar; and what is more provoking to man than to have his veracity called in question, and to be counted a liar? in short, as faith has salvation annexed to it, unbelief has damnation, and to whom did the Lord swear that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not? so great an evil is unbelief, and is the sin which “easily beset” c the Israelites, as appears from the context; see Heb 3:12
and trusted not in his salvation; which he promised them, and bid them stand still and see, Ex 14:13, and of which they had had some proofs and instances in leading them through the Red sea, and thus far guiding them through the wilderness, and providing for them; and therefore had reason and encouragement to trust in the Lord, that he would yet be with them, and save them, and complete the mercy promised unto them.
c , which Suidas, in voce interprets a foolish thing; and it is thought by his learned editor Kusterus, in ibid. to allude to foolish persons, who stand round about a mountebank or juggler, gazing at his tricks with pleasure and admiration, being insnared by them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Ver. 22. Because they believed not in God ] As faith is a radical and complex grace; so is unbelief a radical sin, a teeming vice, Heb 3:12 , a wellspring of wickedness; many sins are bound up in it, as Cicero saith of parricide.
And trusted not in his salvation
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
trusted not = confided not. Hebrew. batah. App-69.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
trusted
(See Scofield “Psa 2:12”)
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Psa 106:24, Isa 7:9, Heb 3:12, Heb 3:18, Heb 3:19, Heb 11:6, 1Jo 5:10, Jud 1:5
Reciprocal: Exo 16:28 – General Num 14:11 – believe me Deu 1:32 – General Deu 9:23 – ye believed 2Ki 17:14 – did not believe Psa 78:32 – believed Psa 78:42 – remembered Zep 3:2 – she trusted Mar 9:19 – O faithless Tit 3:8 – which
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and {n} trusted not in his salvation:
(n) That is, in his fatherly providence, by which he cares for his, and provides sufficiently.