032. Prayer Of David And Thanksgiving.

Prayer Of David And Thanksgiving. The Prayer as recorded.—2 Samuel 7:18-29.

One of the first acts of David’s reign was to place the ark in the tabernacle in the presence of all the people; it was he that collected the priests and Levites, and bade them, morning and evening, remember the Lord their God, and offer their daily sacrifices to Him who had created and sustained them; it was he who first taught them unitedly to chant his praises in the tabernacle, and in every house and cottage in Israel were sung the hymns of David. The time will come when it may be said of their sweet strains—“Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.” In this prayer he seems to remember God’s continued goodness to him, and how wonderfully he has been led from the “mountain fold” to the royal throne. As he sits in the tabernacle whither he had gone to pray, he tells the Lord the thoughts of his heart, and pours out his thanksgiving to him; he also reiterates God’s promises to him, by which the Lord had connected the glory of his own truth with the establishment of David’s family, that those who came after him might walk in the path of salvation, and work for the cause of God in the world.