Topic: The Book Of Psalms -- A Brief Overview, Part 5 Of 7

The supplications of Psalm 69, suit best with the renewed distress occasioned by the sedition of Adonijah. Psalm 71 to which Psalm 70 a fragment of a former psalm, is introductory, forms David's parting strain. Yet that the psalmody of Israel may not seem finally to terminate with hint, the glories of the future are forthwith anticipated by his son in Psalm 72. The great prophetical ode, Psalm 45, connects itself most readily with the splendors of Jehoshaphat's reign. Psalm 42-44, 74 are best assigned to the reign of Ahaz. The reign of Hezekiah is naturally rich in psalmody, Psalm 46,73,75,76 connect themselves with the resistance to the supremacy of the Assyrians and the divine destruction of their host. We are now brought to a series of psalms of peculiar interest, springing out of the political and religious history of the separated ten tribes. In date of actual composition they commence before the times of Hezekiah. The earliest is probably Psalm 80 A supplication for the Israelitish people at the time of the Syrian oppression.

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