Numbers 7 / Psalm 34

Numbers 7

1 - 89 Offerings of the Leaders

What we have here is a list of all the offerings the Leaders of the 12 Tribes of Isreal made. Most interesting to me is the last verse: "When Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he would hear the voice speaking to him above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant from between the two cherubim; thus it spoke to him." Angels are there too.

Psalm 34

I Will Teach You the Fear of the Lord

It also contains this note: "Of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away." Also, "from each line beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the psalm one letter is missing and two are in reverse order.

1 - 4 The psalmist praises the Lord. "I will bless the Lord at all times; praise will be always in my mouth" (2).

5 - 11 The psalmist states that he looked to the Lord, and other should do the same. God will make them powerful. "Look to God that you may be radiant with joy and your faces may not blush with shame" (6).

12 - 23 God will give them protection. "No on is condemned whose refuge is God" (23).