The psalm’s careful Mosaic structure reveals its comforts to be the spoils of conquest. In contrast to David’s songs of complaint, Psalm 23 is a precious song of comforts....
In the Bible, all the world is a stage, but like the Tabernacle, that stage moves around a lot. David’s defeat of Goliath can...
In Psalm 63, David the minstrel king likens himself to Israel, and his sufferings and hope not only take on the form of his...
The Lord judged and rejected Saul, and then withdrew His Spirit from him. Then the Lord sent His Spirit to comfort Saul – in David.
The Covenant-literary shape of Psalm 8 allows David to make allusions to some surprising parts of the Torah as well as predicting the Temple...
Psalm 110 is one of the two most frequently quoted Psalms in the New Testament, yet its purpose and content remain mysterious unless we...
When the prophet Nathan told David of a rich man who had stolen and killed a poor man’s sheep (2 Samuel 12), David’s judgment...
Psalm 82 begins with the Lord in his “house of lords,” but He is there because they have been doing what is right in their...
This psalm of David is so well-known that parsing its Covenant-literary structure is like seeing an old friend in a new light.
God’s choice of David from among his brothers in 1 Samuel 16 not only prefigures the baptism of Jesus, it also presents David as...