November 26, 2012 - 2 Samuel 22   

We could almost label this Psalm 151.  This is very much like the Thanksgiving Psalms thanking God for all that has been done for him.  The only thing I found out of place was the section where David talked about his righteousness and his lack of sin.  I guess we don’t know when he wrote this, but it comes at this point, so I was assuming he wrote it late in life.  The incident with Bathsheba seems to take away his righteousness.  Maybe this was written before then.  Or maybe we are to understand that David asked for forgiveness, was punished for the sin, and it was past.  That is the only part that didn’t seem to match.  I thought the whole thing had an attitude that doesn’t belong to an older David, but more the David that had newly become king and just defeated Saul.  I would expected more about life and struggles besides war from and aging David.  Then again, war was really the only thing present his whole life.  He was either fighting, winning, or in exile since Goliath.  Maybe that is all he really understood at the end.