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Very intense and very comforting. It is a prayer and a song. Calvin says the context belongs to the time when Saul was trying to kill David, while James Montgomery Boice dates it to Absalom’s rebellion. It is also a shadow of what would come with the Son of …
In 1787 a medallion was designed by Josiah Wedgwood which showed a kneeling slave in chains, and the motto: ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ Cain had asked: ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ (Gen.4:9), implying the answer was ‘No’, but of course the answer is ‘Yes’.
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Xenophon later led a retreat of Greeks over the site of Nineveh, and he hardly suspected that it had ever been inhabited.
Psalms 120-134 are referred to as songs of ascents which the ancient Hebrews sang as they made their way to Mount Zion (Jerusalem) for one of the great feasts in the Old Testament calendar (Passover, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths). Psalm 132 is easily the longest. …
The Bible consists of history, songs, and prophecies. Many of its authors were just ordinary men whom God used. It was written by about forty authors over about 1,600 years, mainly in two languages (Hebrew and Greek. Yet it is a unified whole; there is one divine mind behind it …
The Psalm centres on Zion (Jerusalem) but notice that it begins and ends with God – 48:1, 14. So it is not a celebration of a place for the sake of the place, but for the sake of God who is in the place.
Also, don’t forget to check out this short video about Martin Luther, made entirely with Playmobil!…
Psalm 46 speaks of the sovereign goodness of God, the troubles of the world, and the peace of the believer (46:1-2). The historical setting may be Sennacherib’s attack on Jerusalem in 701 B.C. (2 Kings 18:28- 30; 19:16, 35). But the Psalm is expressed in more general terms.
We will look briefly at sixteen of the nineteen vices listed here. To make this more manageable, we will look at them under the last ‘love’ heading, at the end of verse 3, which is a negative ‘not loving good’.
