Bible Strands
Psalms 105:25
whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the worshiping assembly, recounting how God reversed the political stance of foreign rulers immediately before sending Moses and Aaron to deliver Israel.
The words — The Hebrew verb הָפַ֣ךְ (ha.Fakh) translates literally as “he turned,” and the infinitive לְ֝הִתְנַכֵּ֗ל (le./hit.na.Kel) means “to deal deceptively” or “to conspire.”
The thread — This pattern of sovereignly shifting human hostility toward God’s chosen appears in Acts 7:19, Genesis 15:13, and Exodus 9:16, where foreign powers exploit, threaten, or are raised up in opposition to Israel.
Why it lands — The text reports God’s active role in redirecting human hearts toward conspiracy, requiring readers to acknowledge divine sovereignty over political opposition and to trust His deliverance despite inverted alliances.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:19 He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- Exodus 9:16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- Exodus 1:16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Romans 9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
- Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
- Exodus 2:23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 4:21 The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
- Exodus 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
- Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.