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Topic:
The Book Of Psalms -- A Brief Overview, Part 5 Of 7
The supplications of Psalm 69, suit best with the renewed distress
occasioned by the sedition of Adonijah. Psalm 71 to which Psalm 70 a
fragment of a former psalm, is introductory, forms David's parting
strain. Yet that the psalmody of Israel may not seem finally to
terminate with hint, the glories of the future are forthwith anticipated
by his son in Psalm 72. The great prophetical ode, Psalm 45, connects
itself most readily with the splendors of Jehoshaphat's reign. Psalm
42-44, 74 are best assigned to the reign of Ahaz. The reign of Hezekiah
is naturally rich in psalmody, Psalm 46,73,75,76 connect themselves with
the resistance to the supremacy of the Assyrians and the divine
destruction of their host. We are now brought to a series of psalms of
peculiar interest, springing out of the political and religious history
of the separated ten tribes. In date of actual composition they commence
before the times of Hezekiah. The earliest is probably Psalm 80 A
supplication for the Israelitish people at the time of the Syrian
oppression.
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