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Who satisfies your mouth with good things… Psalm 103:5a Psalm 37: 3 declares: “Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” There, the

From Redemption to Royalty

In the first half of Psalm 103:4, God redeems us. Then, with only the separation of the pause of a comma, in the second half of the same verse, He crowns us. In other words,

Put Away Childish Things

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11) What

“Or Rab’bath, great. (1.) “Rabbath of the children of Ammon,” the” “chief city of the Ammonites, among the eastern hills, some 20” “miles east of the Jordan, on the southern of the two streams” which united with the Jabbok. Here the bedstead of Og was “preserved (Deut. 3:11), perhaps as a trophy of some victory” gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan. After David had “subdued all their allies in a great war, he sent Joab with a” strong force to take their city. For two years it held out against its assailants. It was while his army was engaged in this protracted siege that David was guilty of that deed of shame which left a blot on his character and cast a gloom over “the rest of his life. At length, having taken the “royal city” “(or the “city of waters,” 2 Sam. 12:27, i.e., the lower city on” “the river, as distinguished from the citadel), Joab sent for” David to direct the final assault (11:1; 12:26-31). The city was “given up to plunder, and the people were ruthlessly put to” “death, and “thus did he with all the cities of the children of” “Ammon.” The destruction of Rabbath was the last of David’s” conquests. His kingdom now reached its farthest limits (2 Sam. 8:1-15; 1 Chr. 18:1-15). The capture of this city is referred to “by Amos (1:14), Jeremiah (49:2, 3), and Ezekiel (21:20; 25:5).” “(2.) A city in the hill country of Judah (Josh. 15:60), possibly “the ruin Rubba, six miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin.”

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