Thursday Evening Bible Study

September 13, 2012

Introduction

Do people see Jesus? Is the gospel preached? Does it speak to the broken hearted? Does it build up the church? Milk – Meat – Manna Preach for a decision Is the church loved?

We’ve seen David become king of Israel.

We’ve seen David commit a terrible sin, adultery with Bathsheba, followed by the murder of her husband Uriah.

We saw the fallout of David’s sin as his oldest son Absalom rebels and causes a civil war to break out.

David’s forces are victorious over the rebels, and David is now reestablished as the king.

21:1-14 Gibeonite Justice

:1 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

:1 there was a famine

Famines come when there is no rain.  It hasn’t rained for several years, the crops aren’t growing, and the people are hungry.

Lesson

Attention please!

I find that most of the time, it’s some sort of difficulty that is at work in a person’s life that God will use to get their attention.

Illustration

The Bricklayer’s Accident Report

Dear Sir/Madam:

I am writing in response to your request for additional information. In block number 3 of the accident report form, I put “trying to do the job alone” as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter that I should explain more fully, and I trust that the following details will be sufficient.

I am a bricklayer by trade. On the date of the accident I was working alone on the roof of a new 6-story building. When I completed my work, I discovered that I had about 500 pounds of brick left over. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which fortunately was attached to the side of the building, at the sixth floor.

Securing the rope at ground level, I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out, and loaded the brick into it. Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it tightly to insure a slow descent of the 500 pounds of brick. You will note in block number 11 of the accident report that I weigh 135 pounds.

Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rather rapid rate up the side of the building.

In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming down. This explains the fractured skull and broken collarbone. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley.

Fortunately, by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope in spite of my pain.

At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground—and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Devoid of the weight of the bricks, the barrel now weighed approximately 50 pounds.

I refer you again to my weight in block number 11. As you might imagine, I began a rapid descent down the side of the building.

In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles and the lacerations of my legs and lower body. The encounter with the barrel slowed me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell onto the pile of bricks, and, fortunately, only 3 vertebrae were cracked.

I’m sorry to report, however, that as I lay there on the bricks, in pain, unable to stand, and watching the empty barrel 6 stories above me—I again lost my presence of mind, and I let go of the rope. The empty barrel weighed more than the rope as it came back down on me and broke both my legs.

I hope I have furnished the information you require as to how the accident occurred.

Sincerely, Billy Wohlnut

Do you think Billy learned a lesson about not “trying to do the job alone”?

:1 David inquired of the LORD

David asked that great question:  “Why?”

Sometimes God will give us an answer.

Sometimes heaven is silent and we will just wonder.

:1 Saul and his bloodthirsty house

There is guilt not just for Saul and his actions, but on his household as well.

We’ve seen this kind of thing at work in Iraq and Libya when a dictator and his sons are doing bad things to people.

:1 he killed the Gibeonites

Play Gibeon map clip

These are the inhabitants of the city of Gibeon.

These were some of the original Canaanites who lived in the land when Joshua brought Israel in to conquer the land.

Instead of fighting against Israel, they made a sneaky peace treaty with them, pretending to be a far off non-threatening city.  But God’s people promised them they would not attack them, and God expected them to keep their promise.

Lesson

Keep your promises

The whole problem of the famine came as a result of Saul breaking a promise.

God is very serious about us being people who keep promises. (Mat. 5:37)

(Mt 5:37 NKJV) But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

We are God’s representatives.

He wants the world to know that He keeps His promises.

:2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.

:2 Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal

Apparently, Saul had at one time gone on a campaign to kill the Gibeonites. We don’t have a record of this campaign, except for this mention.

Lesson

Misplaced Passion

Passion can be a good thing when it’s in the right place.

Jesus displayed “passion” when He tossed the moneychangers out of the Temple (John 2:17)

Play “Temple Cleansing” clip.

(Jn 2:17 NKJV) Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”

But sometimes our “passion” is in the wrong place, or demonstrated in the wrong way.

Before Paul was a Christian, he had “zeal”:

(Php 3:6 NKJV) concerning zeal, persecuting the church…

There are some things that people can get quite passionate about:

The Holy Spirit

When a person first experiences the power of the Holy Spirit in their life, they often want everyone to experience it, and to experience it NOW.

I remember going around to my friends and telling them they all needed to speak in tongues.

Some of that passion turned some people off to the things of God.

Abortion

I understand why Christians are passionate about ending abortion.  We believe that life begins at conception, and that abortion is the taking of a defenseless human life.

But some people take their passion in directions that aren’t good – like bombing an abortion clinic.

Gay marriage

The Bible is pretty clear that marriage was intended for one man and one woman.

But some people in their zeal to keep marriage in America based on Biblical standards have sent the wrong marriage.

They’ve given some gay people the idea that God thinks that homosexuality is the worst sin ever committed and that God hates their guts.

Homosexuality is a sin.  Like all other sins.

The truth is, God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, for all of us sinners, for every kind of sin.

Politics

I do understand the differences between the Democratic party positions and the Republican party positions.

And though I might not like everything that the candidates say or represent, I think the choice is clear enough to know who I’m going to vote for.

But don’t make the mistake of letting people think that if you become a Christian, you must switch your party affiliation to be Republican.

We have an influence and responsibility in this world, but our “kingdom” is not of this world, and I would rather that a non-believing Democrat come to know Jesus than that he vote Republican.  Does that make sense?

In his misplaced “passion”, Saul created quite a mess.

:3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?”

:3 What shall I do for you?

This is important. David is asking the Gibeonites what will make them happy.

Their answer is not necessarily God’s answer to the problem.

God’s concern is that the offended Gibeonites were satisfied, and that’s why the famine has occurred.

The offense here is more against the Gibeonites than it is against God.

:4 And the Gibeonites said to him, “We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house, nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us.” So he said, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”

They don’t want money.

:5 Then they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of Israel,

:6 let seven men of his descendants be delivered to us, and we will hang them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord chose.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

:6 seven men of his descendants

This wasn’t God’s requirement. God is not asking David to perform some sort of “human sacrifice”.

This is what the Gibeonites want.

Saul has probably killed way more than seven Gibeonites, but they are only asking for seven.

Keep in mind back in verse 1, “his bloodthirsty house” was involved.  It was Saul’s whole house that was behind the Gibeonite genocide.

:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

:8 the two sons of Rizpah

This was the gal that Ishbosheth had accused Abner of having an affair with.

:8 the five sons of Michal

Michal – this raises some problems.

If “Michal” is correct, this would be the gal that was the first wife of David. And she was childless, at least by David (2Sam. 6:23).

One suggestion is that there was a copyist error here, and so the newer translations all have “Merab”. This would fit the rest of Scripture a little better since it was Merab who was married to Adriel:

(1 Sa 18:19 NKJV) —19 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

One other suggestion is that these five were the sons of Merab, who died, and who were raised by Michal.

:9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the Lord. So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

:9 into the hands of the Gibeonites

Lesson

Reconciliation

When you’ve wronged someone, it’s important that you do whatever you can to make things right.  Paul calls this “godly repentance”

(2 Co 7:11 NLT) Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right.

Paul also wrote,

(Ro 12:18 NKJV) If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

It’s not always possible to do what they ask because some people ask for too much, yet as much as is “possible” we respond.

But don’t let your pride keep you from doing the right thing.

:10 Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

In those days, crucifixion had not yet been invented. These men were put to death, and then their dead bodies were displayed. It was a great shame that a body hung out for all to see and in most cases, bodies were not allowed to hang for more than a day (Deut. 21:22-23).

To appease the Gibeonites, the bodies were kept out in the open from the barley harvest in April until the early rains of October.

Rizpah kept the bodies from being eaten by the birds or animals.

:11 And David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

:12 Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.

:13 So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

:14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded the prayer for the land.

:14 They buried the bones of Saul

Play Gilboa to Zelah map clip.

When Saul and his sons were killed by the Philistines on Mount Gilboa, their bodies were taken by the Philistines to the city of Beth Shan, where they were hung up on the city wall.  The men of Jabesh Gilead marched all night and took the bodies back to Jabesh Gilead.  David now brings all these bones together to the Kish family home at Zelah.

Lesson

Balanced Honor

In response to Rizpah’s show of grief, David does an honorable thing for the bones of Saul and his descendants by gathering them all into one place.

The Gibeonites would not be the only ones offended in this incident.

The Benjamites and descendants of Saul would also be offended in return to what had happened.

David shows a measure of kindness to them.

And that’s when it started raining.

Lesson

Ending the drought

It ended when repentance was complete.

David not only dealt with the Gibeonites and their hurt, but he also dealt with the tribe of Benjamin by honoring Saul’s bones.

Illustration

THE RED UMBRELLA Retold by Tania Gray

As the drought continued for what seemed an eternity, a small community of mid-west farmers was in a quandary as to what to do. The rain was important not only in order to keep the crops healthy, but also to sustain the townspeople’s very way of living. As the problem became more urgent, the local church felt it was time to get involved and planned a prayer meeting in order to ask for rain. In what seemed a vague remembrance of an old Native American ritual, the people began to show. The pastor soon arrived and watched as his congregation continued to file in. He slowly circulated from group to group as he made his way to the front in order to officially begin the meeting. Everyone he encountered was visiting across the isles, enjoying the chance to socialize with their close friends. As the pastor finally secured his place in front of his flock, his thoughts were on the importance of quieting the crowd and starting the meeting. Just as he began asking for quiet, he noticed an eleven year-old girl sitting in the front row. She was angelically beaming with excitement and laying next to her was her bright red umbrella, poised for use. The beauty and innocence of this sight made the pastor smile to himself as he realized the faith this young girl possessed that the rest of the people in the room seemed to have forgotten. For the rest had come just to pray for rain.....She had come to see God answer.

Love it!

21:15-22 Giant Killers

:15 When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint.

David is getting older now.  But it seems that he wants to fight.  He got into trouble with Bathsheba when he didn’t go to war.  This time he goes out to the battle.  But he starts to get tired.

Play Gath map clip. We think most of these incidents will take place near Gath.

:16 Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David.

:16 three hundred shekels

That’s about 7 ½ pounds (a gallon of milk).  Goliath’s spear head = 15 pounds.

This fellow is a son of Goliath.  He wouldn’t mind a little revenge on the old man that killed his daddy.

:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

Abishai rescues David.  David is asked to stay away from the battles.  He’s too old.

:18 Now it happened afterward that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant.

:18 Gob

We think this is another name for the city of Gath, the home of Goliath.

Sibbechai kills another of the sons of Goliath.

:19 Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

Another giant killed.  I’m not sure he was the “brother”, but probably another “son” of Goliath.

:20 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant.

:21 So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

:22 These four … fell by the hand of …

Lesson

Raising Giant Killers

There was a time in Israel’s history when a single giant made the entire army tremble in their boots.  Until a young man stepped up and took the challenge.

David was that giant killer.

Now there are more raised up to take his place.

How?  By setting an example.

We don’t have records of any “giant killing classes” offered by David.

We don’t have records of David releasing a best-selling book, “Seven Secrets of Effective Giant Killers”.

We just have his example. Paul said,

(1 Co 11:1 NKJV) Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.

Sometimes we get discouraged in our battles with our own “giants”.

We make excuses as to why we can’t conquer this “thing”.

Others see us and follow our example.

When we decide to give up our excuses, and face our “giant” head on, it gives others courage to see that they can do it too.

It’s not just about “me” and my “giant”.  Set the example.

22:1-51 Deliverance Praise

This is almost identical to Psalm 18.

There are some slight difference from Psalm 18, but Spurgeon suggests that this is because David had this song sung on different occasions, editing it slightly to fit the occasion.

It seems that this is not something that chronologically follows the previous chapter. This is a Psalm that was tacked on to the end of the history. This was written earlier, towards the beginning of David’s reign, after the death of Saul, perhaps somewhere after 2Samuel 8.

:1 Then David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, on the day when the Lord had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

:2 And he said: “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

:3 The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence.

:4 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

:5 “When the waves of death surrounded me, The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

:6 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

:6 Sheol – the place of the dead.

This is an example of Hebrew parallelism.  The next phrase speaks of “death”, being a parallel to “Sheol”.

In a Hebrew poem, things are often in pairs, sometimes in threes.  They will either describe the same thing, or describe opposite things.  Sometimes the best way you can understand a phrase you don’t understand is to see what it is matched with.

:7 In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears.

David prayed when he was in distress.  Look at how God will answer David’s prayers.

:8 “Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry.

:9 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it.

:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under His feet.

:11 He rode upon a cherub, and flew; And He was seen upon the wings of the wind.

:12 He made darkness canopies around Him, Dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

:13 From the brightness before Him Coals of fire were kindled.

:14 “The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice.

:15 He sent out arrows and scattered them; Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them.

:16 Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered, At the rebuke of the Lord, At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

:16 the blast of the breath of His nostrils

David is describing a storm. David prayed, and God answered through the weather with a storm.

Lesson

Miracles in our midst

Sometimes God answers our prayers in ways that we don’t expect.

In fact, sometimes when He answers, we don’t realize that it’s God behind the situation.

Play “Little Things” video

There will be some people who will look at what David is writing and say that David is just a primitive man who looks at a storm and mistakenly thinks that “God” is behind it.

David knew better.  He knew that God WAS behind it.

:17 “He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters.

:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; For they were too strong for me.

:19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my support.

:20 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.

:21 “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

:22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

:23 For all His judgments were before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

:24 I was also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.

:25 Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in His eyes.

:25 recompensed me according to my righteousness

Keep in mind – it seems that David wrote this before his adultery with Bathsheba and his murder of Uriah the Hittite.

Lesson

It pays to be good

I know we are saved by grace and not by works (Eph. 2:8-9). I know that we could never be saved by our own good works because all our best works are but filthy rags to God (Isa. 64:6).

Though it may sound like boasting on David’s part, there is something of value here.

There is benefit in living your life the right way.

I remember having a friend of mine criticize me because I lived in a nice house and while he lived in his mom’s garage.  But I think that comes from the fact that I haven’t spent money on alcohol, prostitutes, and drugs.  And my wife and I have had steady jobs all of our adult lives.

God promised Israel that if they walked in His ways, He would bless them and protect them. (Deut. 28:7)

(Dt 28:7 NKJV) “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

:26 “With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless;

:27 With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.

:28 You will save the humble people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.

:27 pure … devious

Lesson

Views of God

God will respond to people based on their hearts.

Some people speak of how “cruel” God is, when they are the “devious” ones, and they keep getting caught.

If people are not willing to come to God humbly, they will not know God’s mercy.

:29 “For You are my lamp, O Lord; The Lord shall enlighten my darkness.

:29 You are my lamp

We saw this on Sunday:

(1 Jn 1:5 NKJV) This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

We read it again this week:

(Col 1:13 NKJV) —13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

:30 For by You I can run against a troop; By my God I can leap over a wall.

:30 by You I can run against a troop

Paul wrote,

(Php 4:13 NKJV) I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Illustration

Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China, said, “Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little, and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and His presence to be with them.”

:31 As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

:32 “For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?

:33 God is my strength and power, And He makes my way perfect.

:34 He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places.

:35 He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

:36 “You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your gentleness has made me great.

:37 You enlarged my path under me; So my feet did not slip.

:34 my feet like the feet of deer

Play “En Gedi Oryx” clip.  This is En Gedi, an oasis along the coast of the Dead Sea in Israel.  There are little deer, called “Oryx” that live there and walk the steep canyon walls.

God can teach us to conquer the heights.  Places we used to be afraid of.

:38 “I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them; Neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed.

:39 And I have destroyed them and wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet.

:40 For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose against me.

:41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, So that I destroyed those who hated me.

:42 They looked, but there was none to save; Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

:43 Then I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trod them like dirt in the streets, And I spread them out.

:38 pursued my enemies and destroyed them

Lesson

Conquering enemies

First identify who the real enemies are.

(Eph 6:12 NKJV) For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For us, our enemies aren’t people.  It’s spiritual enemies.

With God’s help, we will conquer.

The people we often relate to as our “enemies” are only prisoners of war:

(2 Ti 2:24–26 NKJV) —24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

Keep standing against the real enemy:

(Eph 6:10–11 NKJV) —10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

:44 “You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me as the head of the nations. A people I have not known shall serve me.

:45 The foreigners submit to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.

:46 The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts.

:44 A people I have not known shall serve me

In David’s mind, he is talking about how he has conquered the non-Israeli neighbors on each of his borders.

But wait, there’s more!

It also speaks prophetically of the Gentiles being a part of God’s family and serving the Jewish Messiah, Jesus. (Is. 55:5)

(Is 55:5 NKJV) —5 Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, And nations who do not know you shall run to you, Because of the Lord your God, And the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you.”

(Eph 2:19 NKJV) —19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

(Ro 9:25 NKJV) —25 As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.”

:47 “The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation!

:48 It is God who avenges me, And subdues the peoples under me;

:49 He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man.

:50 Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name.

:51 “He is the tower of salvation to His king, And shows mercy to His anointed, To David and his descendants forevermore.”

God is good.  All the time.