David’s Right Hand in the Rivers

The 22nd chapter of 2 Samuel is a song of David in which he passes in review all God's mercies toward him. As will be recalled, I have already presented some comments on this song of a general nature. Let us now attend more closely to some of the lines contained in its last section -- the lines in which David, speaking to God, declares: Thou hast kept me to be the head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. The 22nd chapter of 2 Samuel is a song of David in which he passes...