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A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING (I)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
2 Samuel 22
Hebrews 6:1-8
“And this will we do, if God permit.”
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING (I)
2 Samuel 22 is a digression from the historical narrative. It is a psalm that expresses the heart of David. The Psalms are David’s best means of expressing his feelings to God. Below is a commentary by Keil and Delitzsch on 2 Samuel 22. It is titled, “David’s Psalm of Thanksgiving for Victory over All His Enemies.”
“In the following psalm of thanksgiving, David praises the Lord as his deliverer out of all dangers during his agitated life and conflicts with his foes (2 Sam 22:2-4). In the first half he pictures his marvellous deliverance out of all the troubles which he passed through, especially in the time of Saul’s persecutions, under the image of an extraordinary theophany (vv 5-20), and unfolds the ground of this deliverance (2 Sam 22:21‑28). In the second half he proclaims the mighty help of the Lord, and his consequent victories over the foreign enemies of his government (vv 29‑46), and closes with renewed praise of God for all His glorious deeds (2 Sam 22:47-51). The psalm is thus arranged in two leading divisions, with an introductory and concluding strophe. But we cannot discover any definite system of strophes in the further arrangement of the principal divisions, as the several groups of thoughts are not rounded off symmetrically.
The contents and form of this song of praise answer to the fact attested by the heading, that it was composed by David in the later years of his reign, when God had rescued him from all his foes, and helped his kingdom to victory over all the neighbouring heathen nations. The genuineness of the psalm is acknowledged to be indisputable by all the modern critics…”
THOUGHT: Good thoughts come from the Heavenly Father.
PRAYER: Father, fill me with Thy Holy Spirit to declare Thy Word.