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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 44:2
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[How] thou didst drive out the Heathen with thy hand, etc.] Of power; that is, the Canaanites, as the Targum; the seven nations which inhabited the land of Canaan before the children of Israel came into it, (<050701>Deuteronomy 7:1); and plantedst them: not the Canaanites elsewhere; but, as the same Targum explains it the house of Israel in their land; which, like a vine, was removed from one place, and planted in another; and the settlement of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan is frequently expressed by this metaphor, (<021517>Exodus 15:17 <198008>Psalm 80:8 <230501>Isaiah 5:1,7) (<240221>Jeremiah 2:21); [how] thou didst afflict the people; the Egyptians, according to Arama; rather the Canaanitish nations by wars and desolating judgments; and cast them out; that is, the same nations out of their land; though some render this clause, “and didst send them out”; the captive Israelites, as Arama; or “didst propagate them” f595; meaning the people of Israel; who being like a vine planted in the and, sent out its boughs and branches, and became very flourishing and fruitful; (see <198009>Psalm 80:9-11); and so the Syriac version renders it, “and thou confirmedst them”; but the former sense seems best, agreeably to which is the Targum, “thou hast broken the nations, and hast consumed them”; and that all this was the Lord’s work appears by what follows.
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