Sublime

The primary function of Chronicles is to show the trajectory of the covenant fulfillment,

the Davidic covenant, which has two parts: David’s dynasty and Solomon’s Temple.

Psalm 8, David marvels at God’s creation and the fact that man is given dominion over it.

God is the hero of the story.

One way of understanding this has been proposed, on the basis of detailed study of comparative material in the ancient Near East, by John Walton in his remarkable book The Lost World of Genesis One. Walton insists that in that ancient world anyone reading about something being built by a god in six days or stages would know that it was basically a

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

Psalm 16 feels more accessible after we’ve walked closely with David.

These seven psalms are among the fifteen chapters known as the Songs of Ascent.