Psalms Chapter 78 verse 66 Holy Bible
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.
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And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
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And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 66. - And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts; rather, backward, so that they fled before him (comp. Psalm 40:14; Psalm 70:2, etc.). There is no allusion to 1 Samuel 5:6-12. The reference is rather to the many victories of Israel over the Philistines, which began under Samuel (1 Samuel 7:10), and continued under Saul and David. He put them to a perpetual reproach. Covered them, that is, with shame and disgrace. The shame culminated, perhaps, in David's victory over Goliath (1 Samuel 17:40-51).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(66) He smote.--Possibly an allusion to 1Samuel 5:9, or else to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David.