Title: Divine Deliverance
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Psalm 30
Titles are part of the Hebrew text so they are listed as verse 1.
A song at the dedication of the temple - the problem is that Solomon, not David built the temple after David had died.
The background is that David, towards the end of his 40-year reign, decided to count all the men who were able to fight to see how powerful Israel was. It took nine months for the census and the total count was 1,570,000. God was displeased with David and sent a plague which lasted for three days and killed 70,000 men.
The psalm is a thanksgiving for God's deliverance in stopping the plague (I Chron. 21). When the plague stopped David built an altar, offered a sacrifice and then paid 600 shekels of gold for the site where the temple would later be built.
II Chron. 22:1 David said, "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Deliverance should always result in praise for what God has done. When God solves the problem or frees us from trouble, we should recognize his deliverance. We sometimes see it in relationship
to sin, but not in the other areas of our life such as: an enemy, finances, sickness, a relationship or some other problem we face.
PERSONAL PRAISE :1-3
Extol - Heb. to exalt or lift up often used for praising God.
Drawn (KJB lifted) - Heb. pulling up a bucket from a well.
David uses a Hebrew play on words here - "I will lift you up because you have lifted me up."
:2 Since David was the one who instigated the plague because he had insisted on a census, he may have thought he would die.
Healed me - he had prayed for God to stop the plague on the people because they were innocent, he was the guilty one.
I Chronicles 21:17 Please let your hand, O Lord my God,
be against me and my father's house.
:3 Restored me to life - shown him favor in not taking his life.
I Chronicles 22:26 David buil ...
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Psalm 30
Titles are part of the Hebrew text so they are listed as verse 1.
A song at the dedication of the temple - the problem is that Solomon, not David built the temple after David had died.
The background is that David, towards the end of his 40-year reign, decided to count all the men who were able to fight to see how powerful Israel was. It took nine months for the census and the total count was 1,570,000. God was displeased with David and sent a plague which lasted for three days and killed 70,000 men.
The psalm is a thanksgiving for God's deliverance in stopping the plague (I Chron. 21). When the plague stopped David built an altar, offered a sacrifice and then paid 600 shekels of gold for the site where the temple would later be built.
II Chron. 22:1 David said, "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
Deliverance should always result in praise for what God has done. When God solves the problem or frees us from trouble, we should recognize his deliverance. We sometimes see it in relationship
to sin, but not in the other areas of our life such as: an enemy, finances, sickness, a relationship or some other problem we face.
PERSONAL PRAISE :1-3
Extol - Heb. to exalt or lift up often used for praising God.
Drawn (KJB lifted) - Heb. pulling up a bucket from a well.
David uses a Hebrew play on words here - "I will lift you up because you have lifted me up."
:2 Since David was the one who instigated the plague because he had insisted on a census, he may have thought he would die.
Healed me - he had prayed for God to stop the plague on the people because they were innocent, he was the guilty one.
I Chronicles 21:17 Please let your hand, O Lord my God,
be against me and my father's house.
:3 Restored me to life - shown him favor in not taking his life.
I Chronicles 22:26 David buil ...
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