Psalm, Chapter 45
A Song Celebrating the King’s Marriage.
For the choir director; according to the [a]Shoshannim. A [b]Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
45 My heart [c]overflows with a good theme;
I [d]address my [e]verses to the [f]King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- The title of this chapter is a song celebrating the King's marriage
- a song it's normally sung as a result of joy
- and this song is about the King's marriage (Jesus is arcane and his bride is the church)
- this song is for acquired director (hey choir director his job is to get the people of God to get on their feet and to sing praises to the Lord because of his outrageous generous blessings)
- then we read this very odd sentence according to the shoshannim
o shoshannin is a white Lilly; it comes from the root word shoshanna which means rose in Hebrew. This is a picture of how God loves His bridge and will adorn her or maker her white as a lilly
- In this title we also learn that this chapter is a Maskil of the sons of the Korah and also a song of love
o Korah was the grandson of Kohath, and he began to run with another group of Reubenite malcontents, namely, Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On, son of Peleth. In pride, they roused a group of 250 men together to challenge the right of Moses and Aaron to the priesthood (Numbers 16).
o Moses confronted them and the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community
o The sons of Korah were too young to understand and even though their relatives died, God had mercy and saved the sons. Seven generations later, the prophet Samuel arose from the line of Korah, the genealogy of which is recorded in 1 Chronicles 6:31–38 and 1 Samuel 1:1, 20. The Korahites became doorkeepers and custodians for the tabernacle (1 Chronicles 9:19–21; 1 Chronicles 2.) One group of Korahites (1 Chronicles 12:6) joined King David in various military exploits and won the reputation of being expert warriors. However, the most remarkable thing to note about the sons of Korah is that during the time of King David, they became the great leaders in choral and orchestral music in the tabernacle
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