Psalms 105:28-38

28 He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his word.

29 He turned their waters into blood and slew their fish.

30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance in the chambers of their kings.

31 He spoke, and swarms of flies and lice came within all their borders.

32 He turned their rain into hail, into flaming fire in their land.

33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees and broke the trees within their borders.

34 He spoke, and the locusts came and caterpillars without number,

35 and ate up all the grass in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was not one sick person among their tribes.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them fell upon them.

Psalms 105:28-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 105

This psalm was penned by David, and sung at the time when the ark was brought from the house of Obededom to the place which David had prepared for it; at least the first fifteen verses of it, the other part being probably added afterwards by the same inspired penman, as appears from 1Ch 16:1-7. The subject matter of the psalm is the special and distinguishing goodness of God to the children of Israel, and to his church and people, of which they were typical: the history of God's regard to and care of their principal ancestors, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph and of the whole body of the people, in bringing them out of Egypt, leading them through the wilderness, and settling them in the land of Canaan, is here recited, as an argument for praise and thankfulness.