Introduction
A Psalm of David.
Luther calls this psalm “David’s mirror of a monarch.” It was written by him, evidently, in the early part of his reign, after the submission of all the tribes, and after fixing his capital at Jerusalem, as a model of what his kingdom should be. And when we follow out the organization of his household, his court, his kingdom, his army, the Levites in their various departments of sacred service, his plan for uniting civil justice with religion, every department under his rule with the profound ethics of Moses, and subordinating all authority, in peace and war, to the sovereignty of God, we are struck with the fidelity with which the principles of the psalm were carried out, and with the greatness and comprehension of his own mind. See a graphic summary of this in Stanley’s Jewish Church, Lect. 23
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