Wednesday Bible Study: The Return of the King

You may recall that an earlier psalm purported to be the last Psalm of David, but as we know, the current Book of Psalms is actually a compilation and the editors just didn ' t delete that. There are more psalms attributed to David and we ' ve come to two of them today. Psalm 101, attributed to David,  is a sort of oath of office. Psalm 103 is a song of praise, which gives God several attributes that he clearly doesn ' t have. No, he doesn ' t heal all diseases (v. 3), doesn ' t renew youth (v. 5), doesn ' t work vindication and justice for all who are oppressed (v. 6) and most certainly is not merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love (v. 8). I don ' t even know where to begin. Let ' s say, oh, just to pick one at random, Numbers 25:25 While Israel dwelt in Shittim the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.3 So Israel yoked himself to Ba ′al of Pe′or. And the anger of theLord was kindled against Israel;4 and theLord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them in the sun before theLord, that the fierce anger of theLord may turn away from Israel. ”5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Every one of you slay his men who have yoked themselves to Ba′al of Pe′or.” Or how about, oh what the heck, 1 Samuel 15:15 And Samuel said to Saul, ...
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