Psalms 20                                                         Book of Psalms  

 

Psalms 20:1 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

• Defend = shall defend.
• To this day the calling out the name of a person of rank or power will bring protection to one in danger from the violence of an enemy.
• In Psalms always used of God.

2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

• All thy offerings = every present of thine
• Offering = gift offerings, or presents
• Accept = Is a Hebrew turn to ashes.
• This was the only way by which God accepted what was offered.
• Genesis 4:4 Gen 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
• Selah = Here, connecting the prayer
• Psalms 20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
• With the atonement or accepted sacrifice
• Psalms 20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
• The only ground on which prayer can be answered.

4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.

• Fulfil = will fulfil
• Will hear = answereth continually
• With the saving strengths = by the mighty saving deeds
• Strength = might

6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

• Some trust in = some by
• In = By
• We will remember = we by

8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

• Stand upright = are established

9 Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.

• God save the king
• Psalms 20:6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
  7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
  8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
  9 Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
• when = in the day when

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25