Psalm 105:10-20

10 Then He ¹confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

11 Saying, "²To you I will give the land of Canaan As the ³portion of your inheritance,"

12 When they were only a ⁴few men in number, Very few, and ⁵strangers in it.

13 And they wandered about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

14 He ⁶permitted no man to oppress them, And He ⁷reproved kings for their sakes:

15 "⁸Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

16 And He ⁹called for a famine upon the land; He ¹⁰broke the whole staff of bread.

17 He ¹¹sent a man before them, Joseph, who was ¹²sold as a slave.

18 They afflicted his ¹³feet with fetters, He himself was laid in irons;

19 Until the time that his ¹⁴word came to pass, The word of the LORD ¹⁵tested him.

20 The ¹⁶king sent and released him, The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

Psalm 105:10-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 28:13-15
• 2. Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18
• 3. Joshua 23:4; Psalms 78:55
• 4. Genesis 34:30; Deuteronomy 7:7
• 5. Genesis 23:4; Hebrews 11:9
• 6. Genesis 20:7; Genesis 35:5
• 7. Genesis 12:17; Genesis 20:3, 7
• 8. Genesis 26:11
• 9. Genesis 41:54
• 10. Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 3:1; Ezekiel 4:16
• 11. Genesis 45:5
• 12. Genesis 37:28, 36; Acts 7:9
• 13. Genesis 39:20; Genesis 40:15
• 14. Genesis 40:20, 21
• 15. Psalms 66:10
• 16. Genesis 41:14

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "measuring line"
• [b] Lit "His soul came into"
• [c] Or "refined"