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The Book Of Psalms -- A Brief Overview, Part 3 Of 7
Connection of the Psalms with Israelitish history.--The psalm of
Moses Psalm 90, which is in point of actual date the earliest, faithfully
reflects the long, weary wanderings, the multiplied provocations and the
consequent punishments of the wilderness. It is, however, with David
that Israelitish psalmody may be said virtually to commence. Previous
mastery over his harp had probably already prepared the way for his
future strains, when the anointing oil of Samuel descended upon him, and
he began to drink in special measure, from that day forward, of the
Spirit of the Lord. It was then that, victorious at home over the
mysterious melancholy of Saul and in the held over the vaunting champion
of the Philistine hosts, he sang how from even babes and sucklings God
had ordained strength because of his enemies. Psalm 8. His next psalms
are of a different character; his persecutions at the hands of Saul had
commenced. When David's reign has begun, it is still with the most
exciting incidents of his history, private or public, that his psalms
are mainly associated. There are none to which the period of his reign
at Hebron can lay exclusive claim. But after the conquest of Jerusalem
his psalmody opened afresh with the solemn removal of the ark to Mount
Zion; and in Psalm 24-29 which belong together, we have the earliest
definite instance of David's systematic composition or arrangement of
psalms for public use. Even of those psalms which cannot be referred to
any definite occasion, several reflect the general historical
circumstances of the times.
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