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His rebellion, as foretold, ended in witchcraft: 1 Sam. xv. 23. Contrast Ps. cxxxix. 24, xvii. 1, 3, 4. David's being "kept from evil": 1 Sam. xxiv. 9, xxv. 39, xxvi. 9. "Plead my cause," Ps. xxxv. I, xliii. I, coinciding with I Sam. xxv. 39. Messiah's resurrection, Ps. xvi. 9, 10, as proved by Acts ii 26. So the saints: John viii. 51. Pages 24-32

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Prayer for deliver

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"How long?" four times. Ps. xiii. coincides with 1 Sam. xxvii. 1. Jehovah's answer, Isa. xlix. 15. Again, liv. 8. Coincidence of Ps. xiii. 3, "Lighten mine eyes," with 1 Sam. xiv. 24-29; also Ps. xix. 8. Two Psalms of the time of David's sojourn with Achish of Gath, xxxiv., lvi. ance thanks for it. Goliath's sword: 1 Sam. xxi. 8-12, xxvii., xxix. lvi. 13, title, Jonath, Elem, Rechokim; compare lv. 6. Coincidence of lv. 12-14, concerning Ahithophel and Absalom, and the city and its divided counsels, strife, sorrow, and wickedness, with 2 Sam. xvi. 21-23. Dumb,' Ps. xxxviii. 13, with 1 Sam. xviii. 14. Ps. xxxiv. title and 12-14 with 1 Sam. xxi. 13. Abimelech for Achish: compare Gen. xx. and xxvi. "Wrest my words," Ps. lvi. 5, with 1 Sam. xxiv. 9. "Shall they escape by iniquity?" Ps. lvi. 7, with 1 Sam. xiii. 14, xv. 26. 'My wanderings Thy bottle," Ps. lvi. 8, with 1 Sam. xxvi. 20, Ps. cxxvi. 5, Isa. lxi. 7. "Thy vows upon me," Ps. lvi. 12, 13, fulfilled in Ps. xxxiv. David, the "poor man," 'cried' and was 'saved.' "Thou hast known my soul in adversities,” Ps. xxxi. 7, with 2 Sam. iv. 9, 1 Kings i. 29. "The angel of Jehovah encampeth about them that fear Him," Ps. xxxiv. 7, with 1 Sam. xxix. 9, Gen. xlviii. 16, Ex. iii., iv., Isa. lxiii. 9. The same angel chaseth their persecutors, Ps. xxxv. 5, 6. Ps. lxxxvi. 2, "Preserve my soul, for I am pious," with xvi. 1, 10; lxxxvi. 8 with xvi. 4, 5, and 1 Sam. xxvi. 19, and Ps. lxxxvi. 12 with lvi. 13, cxvi. 9. "Jehovah keepeth all his bones," xxxiv. 20, with I Sam. xxi. 10-15. "The Philistines took him . . . in their hands." Ps. viii. title, 'Gittith,' from Gath: ver. 2, David 'stilled' Goliath. "All my bones shall say, Who is like unto Thee?" xxxiv. 20, xxxv. 10, with 2 Sam. vi. 14. Ps. xxx. II, "Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing." Ex. xii. 46, 1 Thess. v. 23

John xix. 36, Pages 33-41

LECTURE VI.

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The Psalms liturgical; a spiritual storehouse for expressions of the Church's experiences. "Jehovah's privy council is with them that fear Him,” Ps. xxv. 14, compared with 1 Sam. xxiii. 6, 9, xxx. 7, 8, 2 Sam. ii. I. Contrast Saul's impatience, I Sam. x. 8, xiii. 8, 14, xiv. 18, 19, Num. xxvii. 21, Isa. xxviii. 16, with David, 1 Chr. xiv. 8-16. Ps. xxvii. 8 ("Seek ye my face. Thy face will I seek"), xxiv. 6, Deut. iv. 29, Ex.xxxiii. 14, Isa. lxiii. 9, Gen. xxxii. 30, coinciding with 2 Sam. xxi. I, "David sought Jehovah's face." Jehovah's 'covenant' for ever: Ps. xxv. 14 with lxxxix. 3, 4, 28, 34, 37; xviii. 50, xxi., with 1 Chr. xvi. 7, 15, 19, 2 Sam. xxiii. 5, 2 Sam. vii. 13. Contrast to the foe perishing "for ever": Ps. xxxviii. 9, ix. 6. Amalek, Ex. xvii. 16 (margin) : Amalek, whom Saul ought to have destroyed, Saul's destroyer: I Sam. xv., 2 Sam. i. 8-10. David thrice their punisher: 1 Sam. xxvii. 8, xxx. 17, 2 Sam. viii. 12. Amalek's last effort against God foiled: Ps. lxxxiii.

with 2 Chr. xx. Simeon, Amalek's last destroyer, I Chr. iv. 42, 43; compare Dan. ii. 35, 44. David's love to God's house, Ps. xxvi. 8, lxix. 9, coinciding with 2 Sam. xv. 25, 1 Chr. xxix. 2, 3. The Antitype, John ii. 13-17. Saul's misplaced zeal, 2 Sam. xxi. 2, 7. Contrast Ps. xv. 4.

LECTURE VII.

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The city Adullam in the Shefelah: Gen. xxxviii. I, 12, 20. The cave, Wady Khureitun, Ayd-el-Mich: 1 Sam. xxi. 10, xxii. I, "David's brethren went down thither." David at Mizpeh of Moab left his father and mother in charge of the king of Moab. Reason: Saul had warred with Moab, 1 Sam. xiv. 47. The Moabitess Ruth, David's ancestress. God's warning, "Abide not in the hold." Cause of David's severity against Moab, 2 Sam. viii. 2. Coincidence: Ps. xxvii. 2, 10, Ezek. xvi. 4-6, Isa. xlix. 15, Josh. xx. 4. Ps. xxvi. 9, "Gather. my soul": Matt. xxiii. 37. The Antitype misunder

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stood by kinsmen: Ps. Ixix. 8 with Mark iii. 21, 31, Luke ii. 35, Matt. xii. 47, John vii. 5. Eliab's gratuitous rebuke, David's meek reply, 1 Sam. xvii. 28, 29, confirm the genuineness of Ps. xxxviii. 13, 14. The Moabite stone coincides with Gen. xix. 30-38, 2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 8-10, 23-27. Identity of language and idiom with Hebrew: Ps. liv. 7, lix. 10. Moab's subjection to Israel, Isa. xvi. I, coinciding with Ps. lx. 8. David's sense of Nahash's kindness: 2 Sam. x. 2; Hanun's insolence and punishment. Connection of David with Nahash: 1 Sam. xi. 2 Sam. xvii. 27, Shobi's kindness to David. Cause of Machir's esteem for David, and provision for his wants when exiled : Ps. xviii. 25, xxiii. 5. Black obelisk from Nimroud omits Moab.

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LECTURE VIII.

Pss. i. and ii. Preface. i. 2, ii. 1.

'Blessed': Matt. v.

Order of the Psalms. 3. Principle of arrangement, spiritual affinity, not chronology. Messiah throughout. Acts ii. 25-27, 34. Written for us: 1 Peter i. 11, 12; Luke xxiv. 25, 27, 44, 46. Trilogy, xxii., xxiii., xxiv. Death scene; Rest in Paradise; Ascension; Davidic thought in Ps. xxii. 5, xxv. 2, 3, xxxi. I; xxii. 12 with Ps. lxviii. 30; xxii. 13 with Ps. xxxv. 21. The believer's leaf, as well as fruit, unwithering: Ps. i. 3, Eccl. iii. 1-11, Rev. xxii. 2; contrast Matt. xxi. 19. David's conscientiousness: sixth commandment: 1 Chr. xi. 15-19, I Sam. xxiv. 5, 2 Sam. xxiv. 10, answering to Ps. xix. 7-13. "Poured out like water," Ps. xxii. 14, i.e. powerlessness, as I Sam. vii. 6, 2 Sam. xiv. 14. Messiah in Ps. xxii. 1, 31: "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” "He hath done," i.e. finished, redemption: John xix. 30, Rev. xvi. 17, xxi. 6. Ps. xxii. 10, "I was cast upon Thee from the womb": lv. 22, Isa. xlii. I, Job xiii. 15, Ps. cxxxix. 15, 16. Ps. xxii. 13, "They gaped upon me," etc., with xxxv. 21. "They pierced my hands,” etc., English version, xxii. 16, agrees with LXX., Vulg., Syr., etc. "They part my garments-cast lots upon -vesture," ver. 18. Transition: ver. 21, "Thou hast heard me. Blessed results, ver. 22-31, Rom. xi. 5, 26-32, 2 Cor. iii. 16, Ezek xl.-xlvii. Ps. xxii. 30, "A seed shall serve Him," with Isa. liii. 10. Imagery of Ps. xxiii., "The Lord is my Shepherd," with 2 Sam. vii. 1, 8, "I took thee from the sheepcote." (Gen. xlix. 24.) The time, when "the Lord had given him rest,"

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2 Sam. vii. I, with Ps. xxiii. 2, "He leadeth me beside the waters of quietnesses," 'leadeth' gently and gradually: Gen. xxxiii. 14 (Jacob): Mark iv. 33, John xvi. 12 (the Lord Jesus). Ps. viii. 3, "When I consider the heavens," etc., suitable to a shepherd watching: Luke ii. "The valley of the shadow of death" not a shadow, but deepest death gloom: Ps. xxiii. 4, xliv. 19. 66 Thy rod," for counting sheep, Lev. xxvii. 32, Jer. xxxiii. 13. Sonship: Job x. 14, 28, 29. “Thy staff": compare 1 Sam xvii. 40. "Save me from the lion's mouth," Ps. xxii. 13, 21, with 1 Sam. xvii. 37. "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies," Ps. xxiii. 5, with 2 Sam. xvi. 1, 2, 14, xvii. 27-32. Ziba, Machir (compare ix. 4), Shobi, Barzillai, answer to "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?" Ps. lxxviii. 19. "Only goodness shall follow me," in spite of foes following me, Ps. xxiii. 6. Ver. 5, "Thou anointest my head," with I Sam. xvi. 13. Sudden rise of Israel to a wide kingdom under David from its depression (1 Sam. xiii. 19) only possible just when Egypt and Assyria were depressed. Pages 59-65

LECTURE IX.

Qualifications for "dwelling for ever in the Lord's house," Ps. xxiii. 6. xxiv. 3, "Who shall rise in His holy place?" 2 Chr. vi. 10, Job xix. 25, John iii. 13, i. 51, vi. 62. Ps. xv. 2, "Who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle?" Ex. xxxiii. 7; contrast Rev. iii. 12, Ps. lxv. 4. Messiah's holiness, the ground of His ascension, John i. 14, viii. 7, 45, 46, xiv. 6, 30: "spoke the truth in heart" no "backbiting nor evil to neighbour": contemned vile person” (Matt. xxii. 16): "honoured them that feared the Lord." Ps. xv. 2-5, "reward taken against Him innocent": Matt. xxvii. 6. Ps. xxiv., "The earth is the Lord's, and all that fills it-the habitable world," a first-day psalm, at David's bringing up the ark : 2 Sam. vi., vii., 1 Chr. xiii., xv. Uzza's error and breach: Perez-Uzza a sad contrast to Baal-Perazim, 2 Sam. v. 20. Compare Ps. lx. 1. Hence David's strict charge of sanctification, I Chr. xv. 12, 13, coinciding with Pss. xv., xxiv. Ps. xxiv. 4, "clean hands": so xxvi. 6: ver. 8, "Lord, I have loved Thine house," with Chr. xxix. 3. Ps. xxiv. I with 1 Chr. xxix. 14, "All things come of Thee." Zion the seat of the ark, the centre of Israel's devotion, 2 Sam. xv. 25. Preliminary vindication by David of Jehovah's omnipresence, Ps. xxiv. I; as I Chr. xxix. 11-16: Solomon's, 2 Chr. vi. 18; Stephen's, Acts vii. 48-50; Isaiah's, before the millennial temple, lxv. 17, 18, 25, lxvi. 1, 2, 12, 23, Ezek. xl.-xlvii., Jer. iii. 17, 18. "The King of glory" enters at His ascension, Ps. xxiv. 7-10: "The Lord of hosts mighty in battle," coinciding with 1 Sam. xvii. 45-47. “Lift up the voice of joy," not the "soul unto vanity" so heaven's gates "lift up their heads," I Chr. xv. 16. Ps. xxiv. 4, 6, "They that seek Thy face (are) Jacob": Gen. xxviii. 2, xxxii. 30, Hos. xii. 4 Pages 66-77

LECTURE X.

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The Psalter one whole, in five books. Acts 20, Luke xx. 44. A poetical Pentateuch, from Moses to Malachi. Each book marked by a closing doxology: xli., lxxii., lxxxix., cvi., cl. First book, all David's: The 'temple,' ver. 7, no objection, 1 Sam. i. 9, iii. 3, Gen. xxviii. 22; nor the

phrase for reversing misfortune, "When the Lord bringeth back the captivity," Ps. xiv. 7, Job xlii. 10. "Salvation-out of Zion" disproves a date after the Babylonian captivity. · Judg. xviii. 30, “the captivity of the land,” i.e., the capture of the ark: 1 Sam. iv. 10, 11, vii. 14, Ps. lxxviii. 60, 61. "Jacob shall rejoice," etc., coinciding with 1 Sam. vi. 13, "They of Bethshemesh rejoiced to see the ark.". Twenty years at Kirjath-jearim. Ps. xiv. 5, liii. 5,

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They (the Philistines) were in great fear (where) no fear was," coinciding with 1 Sam. vii. 2, 7, 8, 10. The cause: "God is in the generation of the righteous"; the consequence (Ps. liii. 5): "God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee." They "shamed... the poor," xiv. 6: so Jehovah "put them to shame," liii. 5. "Jehovah is Israel's refuge,” xiv. 6: so God despised" Israel's foes, liii. 5. Ebenezer, 1 Sam. vii. 12. Further reversal of Israel's oppression by the Philistines: 1 Sam. xiii. 19-22, 2 Sam. v. 20-25. Crowning of it, "Let us bring again the ark," I Chr. xiii. 1-3, coinciding with Ps. xiv. 7. Ps. XV., about entrance into the tabernacle for the ark, naturally follows xiv. The 'joy' and 'gladness,' David "dancing before the Lord with all his might," 2 Sam. vi. 12, 14, I Chr. xv. 25, answer to Ps. xiv. 7, "Jacob shall rejoice and Israel be glad." "The fool" (Nabal) suddenly in fear where so recently he was in no fear: I Sam. xxv. 25, 36, 37; Ps. xiv. 1, 5, liii. 5; Luke xii. 16-20; 2 Sam. iii. 33. Saul, 1 Sam. xxvi. 21. Heartless selfishness toward man, and disregard of God, characterize Nabal: refusing bread to David; with Ps. xiv. 4, liii. 4, "The workers of iniquity eat up my people as ... bread, and call not upon Jehovah." Muth-labben, title Ps. ix.: "My lord fighteth the battles of the Lord"-" thine enemies shall He sling out of a sling," 1 Sam. xxv. 28, 29, with xvii. 49, 50. Reason for twofold form of Psalm; xiv., liii.: Liturgical Maschil: Elohim alone in liii. Gen. vi. 5, 12, with liii. 1, 2, etc. : Corrupt are they," etc.: Luke xvii. 26, 27. Ex. vi. 3, "By my name Jehovah was I not known," i.e., in fulfilling the promises of which the name is the pledge

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LECTURE XI.

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Infidel's scoff, because of David's fall, fulfils Scripture: 2 Sam. xii. 14,
hast given great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme": Jer xvii. 9,
I Sam. xiii. 14, Eph. ii. 5, Rom. xi. 20, 2 Cor. i. 24. Overruled to good.
Occasion of writing two precious Psalms-xxxii., li. Title, li., Nathan had
gone unto David, according as he had gone in to Bathsheba": the same verb
and preposition as 2 Sam. xii. I, 14: connection of sin and condemnation,
especially in the case of God's children: Amoș iii. 2, 1 Peter iv. 17. “Trans-
gressions, iniquity, sin (Ps. li. 1, 2) met by "the multitude of Thy tender
mercies." "Multiply to wash me,' ver. 2, 7, as the leper, Lev. xiv. 4-9.
Against Thee only I sinned," Ps. li. 4, with 2 Sam. xii. 9, 13, Gen. xxxix. 9.
Contrast Saul, 1 Sam. xv. 30, shifting the blame on the people: whereas
David's concern is for the people, lest his sin should hurt them (1 Chr. xxi. 17):
"I it is that have sinned, and done evil:" so Ps. li. 4, 8. Saul's plea for
disobedience in order to 'sacrifice': Samuel refutes it: "Hath the Lord as
great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying?" etc., I Sam.
XV. 21-28.
David's plea, "Thou desirest not sacrifice-Thou delightest not in
burnt-offering": undesigned coincidence. Heartless sacrifices rejected, hearty

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"sacrifices acceptable, Ps. li. 16, 17, 19. "Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me," II: undesigned coincidence with 1.Sam. xvi. 1, 13, 14. Uphold me with a ready spirit," Ps. li. 12: cx. 3, 1 Chr. xxix. 14, 17, contrast with 1 Chr. x. 13, "Saul died for his shuffling transgression." "Renew a stablished spirit within me," Ps. li. 10, with 1 Chr. xxix. 18, "Stablish their heart ": Ps. x. 17 (margin), lxxviii. 37. Ps. li. 14, "Deliver me from bloods, Thou God of my salvation,” harmonizing with 2 Sam. xi. 17, xii. 9, xvi. 7. 'Justifies' God: Ps. li. 3, xxxix. 9, with 2 Sam. xii. 23, Lev. xxvi. 43, 2 Chr. xii. 6, Lev. x. 1-3. "Build walls of Jerusalem," Ps. li. 18, not after the captivity, but agreeing with 1 Chr. xi. 5-8. Prayer heard, 1 Kings iii. 1, xi. 15. David's promise, "I will teach transgressors," Ps. li. 13. Fulfils it Maschil, xxxii. 8, 9. "Sin, iniquity, transgression," ver. 5: David's exceptional fall, 1 Kings xv. 5. Pain whilst he "kept silence." Forgiveness realized upon confession, Ps. xxxii. 3-5, with 'Sin' missing the mark: Rom. iii. 23. Contrast 1 Sam. xiii. 9-14, Pages 86--93

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LECTURE XII.

David's ex

Revolt against Messiah, Ps. i., ii.; so iii., iv., against David the type. periences, the mould in which the Spirit casts His prophecies about Messiah : the sufferings and consequent glory: "God "set apart " as King, David the type of Him whose kingdom shall not pass. Ps. ii. 6, iv. 3, Dan. vii. 14. Title of Ps. iii., Mizmor. The idea on David's way to Mahanaim. Absalom not named. "How are they increased that trouble me!" ver. 1, with 2 Sam. XV. 12. David's flight strange in one so brave. 2 Sam. xix. 9. Conscience, Ahithophel," the man of my peace "--counsellor-acquainted with my secrets : xv. 12, xvi. 23, John xv. 15; type of Judas, with Ps. xli. 9, lv. 12-14. Joined Absalom at once, "while he offered sacrifices," 2 Sam. xv. 7, 8, 12. Hypocritical imitation of Jacob's vow: Gen. xxviii. 20, 21, with Ps. iv. 5, "Offer sacrifices of righteousness." Ahithophel's treachery, Ps. lv. 20, 21, xxxi. 13. Cause father of Eliam or Ammiel, Bathsheba's father : 2 Sam. xi. 3, xxiii. 34, 39: Uriah and Eliam fellow-officers of the thirty-seven bodyguards. Absalom's incest a claim to the throne, and a bond of union in irreconcilable war, by Ahithophel's devilish council. Retribution on David: 2 Sam. xii. 11, 12: “I will smite the king only. . the saying pleased Absalom,” 2 Sam. xvii. 1-3 : contrast David, 2 Sam. xviii. 5, "Deal gently for my sake with Absalom," with Ps. cix. 4, 5. David's prayer, 2 Sam. xv. 31 : Ahithophel's net caught himself," Ps. xxxv. 7, 8: "Make their own tongue fall upon themselves," lxiv. 8: Absalom's corpse cast into a 'pit': 2 Sam. xviii. 17, Ps. lv. 23, cix. 17. Psalm v. a morning hymn : Upon Nehiloth, "concerning the lots" of the righteous and the wicked: 'leasing' of Absalom: ver. 5-7, "fall by their own counsels," with 2 Sam. xvii. 14, 23. "I will come into Thine house," with 2 Sam. xv. 25; "I will not be afraid of ten thousands (Ps. iii. 6), with 2 Sam. xvii. 1; "I cried unto the Lord" (Ps. iii. 4), with 2 Sam. xv. 31; “I will lay me down in peace" (Ps. iv. 8), with 2 Sam. xvi. 1-4. David conferred all Mephibosheth's goods on Ziba. Supply of food and wine, answering to Ps. iv. 7, "Thou hast put gladness in my heart more than in the time their corn and wine increased." The revolters' cry, "Who will show us any good?" Ps. iv. 2-6: Absalom's 'leasing' or lying promises, 2 Sam. xv.2-6. "Sons of heroes" as they thought themselves, they "loved vanity" in setting

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