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Psalms 34:1-22

Psalms 34:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

EXPOSITION

THIS is the third of the alphabetical psalms, and appears to have a special connection with the second of them, . Like that psalm, it omits the vav, and has a second pe at the end, which, moreover, is furnished by the same word (podeh). According to the title, it is a psalm of David, and written on the particular occasion of his dismissal by Achish (Ahimelech), when he had foolishly feigned himself mad in consequence of what he had heard the servants of Achish say (1 Samuel 21:10-15). As there is nothing in the psalm specially suggestive of this occasion, the statement in the title must, it would seem, embody an ancient tradition. It is a composition of a mixed character, being in part didactic (), in part a psalm of thanksgiving (). Metrically, it has been divided into four strophes (Kay), the first and second of five verses each, the third and fourth each of six verses. But there is no corresponding division of the matter.

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