The Bible Study Podcast, episode 252. Today, the Bible Study podcast takes a brief detour from

2 Samuel to look at some of the Psalms of David.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I had said two weeks ago that we were going to look at some of the Psalms of David, and I just forgot last week. But this is actually a good break.

If we had to divide David's life into different segments, I think there are sort of five major segments of his life, three of which we've dealt with and two of which are still

coming. And I think we'll see some of the influence of those times of his life on the

Psalms that he wrote. And he wrote 23 Psalms, or at least 23 of the Psalms in the 150

Psalms in the Book of Psalms are accredited to David, and they range widely in terms of

the emotion involved in them. I'm going to divide up David's life into five pieces. One would be

the time that he's a shepherd boy, and we don't know much about that, so we aren't going to

worry about that too much. Very quickly, he moves from there into the

time that he is running from King Saul, because he's been anointed King of Israel. And then we get

the time period when he is the King of Israel and everything is going well for him. We're about

to leave that time period and enter into a time period where David's sin causes

difficulties for him, including a time when he'll be running from his own son instead of

from King Saul this time. And then finally we get the close of his life when everything is going

fairly well for him again, his old age. As we pause here at the end of these six good chapters

in 2nd Samuel, let's look at some of the Psalms of David. And I think one of the reasons why we

remember David so fondly, and one of the reasons why David is a man after God's own heart,

as God said, is that we get a chance to see his heart in the Psalms that he wrote.

And so I'm going to just pick out some of the Psalms that he wrote, and we're not going to read all of

them. I'm going to deal first with some of those Psalms that I think were probably written at a time

period that he was running from King Saul. And again, not all of these are attributed to a

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