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JULY 26
Then they were silenced and found nothing 2 For I have said, “Mercy shall be built
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to say. Then I said, “What you are doing is not up forever;
good. Should you not walk in the fear of our Your faithfulness You shall establish in the
God because of the reproach of the nations, very heavens.”
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our enemies? I also, with my brethren and my 3 “I have made a covenant with My chosen,
servants, am lending them money and grain. I have sworn to My servant David:
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Please, let us stop this usury! Restore now to 4 ‘Your seed I will establish forever,
them, even this day, their lands, their vine- And build up your throne to all
yards, their olive groves, and their houses, also generations.’ ” Selah
a hundredth of the money and the grain, the
new wine and the oil, that you have charged
them.”
12 So they said, “We will restore it, and will
require nothing from them; we will do as you 89:3 covenant with My chosen. The Davidic
say.” Covenant, culminating in Messiah’s reign, was
Then I called the priests, and required an established in 2 Samuel 7 (1 Kin.8:23;1 Chr.17;
oath from them that they would do accord- 2 Chr. 21:7; Pss. 110;132). The covenant was in
ing to this promise. Then I shook out the the form of a royal grant covenant as God, the
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fold of my garment and said, “So may God Great King, chose David as His servant king. In
shake out each man from his house, and from this type of covenant, the person with whom
his property, who does not perform this the Lord established the covenant could violate
promise. Even thus may he be shaken out the terms of the covenant and the Lord would
and emptied.” still be obligated to maintain the covenant.
And all the assembly said, “Amen!” and
praised the LORD. Then the people did accord- 89:4 seed…forever…throne. The covenant
with David was extended to his descendants.
ing to this promise. The throne promise guaranteed that the
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Moreover, from the time that I was rightful heir to the throne would always be a
appointed to be their governor in the land of descendant of David (vv.29,36;see also 2 Sam.
Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty- 7:13,16,18; Luke 1:31–33). The genealogies of
second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, Jesus qualify Him for the throne (Matt. 1:1–17;
neither I nor my brothers ate the governor’s Luke 3:23–38).
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provisions. But the former governors who
were before me laid burdens on the people,
and took from them bread and wine, besides Proverbs 21:27
forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an
bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, abomination;
because of the fear of God. Indeed, I also How much more when he brings it
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continued the work on this wall, and we did with wicked intent!
not buy any land. All my servants were gath-
ered there for the work. Acts 26:1–32
17 And at my table were one hundred and fifty Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You are
Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us 26 permitted to speak for yourself.”
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from the nations around us. Now that which So Paul stretched out his hand and
was prepared daily was one ox and six choice answered for himself: “I think myself happy,
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sheep. Also fowl were prepared for me, and King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for
once every ten days an abundance of all kinds myself before you concerning all the things of
of wine. Yet in spite of this I did not demand which I am accused by the Jews, especially
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the governor’s provisions, because the because you are expert in all customs and
bondage was heavy on this people. questions which have to do with the Jews.
19 Remember me, my God, for good, accord- Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
ing to all that I have done for this people. 4 “My manner of life from my youth, which
Psalm 89:1–4 was spent from the beginning among my own
nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know. They
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A Contemplation of Ethan the Ezrahite.
knew me from the first, if they were willing to tes-
I will sing of the mercies of the tify, that according to the strictest sect of our reli-
gion I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am
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LORD forever;
With my mouth will I make known judged for the hope of the promise made by God
Your faithfulness to all generations. to our fathers. To this promise our twelve tribes,
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