Psalm 68:7 ¶ O God, when
thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the
wilderness; Selah: 8 The earth shook,
the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was
moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. 9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. 10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O
God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. 11 The Lord gave the word: great was the
company of those that published it. 12
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the
spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the
pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and
her feathers with yellow gold. 14 When
the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
God led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:20 And they took
their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the
wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before
them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a
pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by
day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Mount Sinai was a place of a tremendous appearance by God to the
Israelites.
Exodus 19:18 And mount
Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire:
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount
quaked greatly.
God blessed the Promised Land for them.
Deuteronomy 11:14 That I
will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the
latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
He blessed this congregation of ex-slaves, His people.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made
him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the
fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the
flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk
of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with
the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
The Lord gave the word, His written word to Moses, and many, many
Israelites kept it through generations. One known group even had rules about
copying that if they made a mistake on a piece of parchment or a scroll the
entire page must be destroyed and they would have to start over. But the Lord
also gave the word of His gospel and millions of Christians have paid it
forward in countless manuscripts and books. But back to the Israelites they
drove out the Canaanites from the land that God had promised them. Kings were
terrified and many fell by the sword.
Numbers 31:8 And they slew
the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of
Beor they slew with the sword. 9 And the
children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little
ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all
their goods.
We can also think of this as the spoils taken from Satan for God
by the Christian witness, as some commentators attest. Though the Israelites
lives had been bitter in their slavery God lifted them up and made them
beautiful in His eyes.
Exodus 1:14 And they made
their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them
serve, was with rigour.
So, the Christian is clothed in Christ’s righteousness.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Revelation 19:8 And to her
was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Finally, there is a reference to a snow-covered mountain or hill
called Salmon where God caused kings to flee. This is information we might not
be given elsewhere and is incidental to David’s praise and plea. John Gill
referred to Revelation and the destruction of the kings of the earth.
David’s praise of God continues.
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