The Bible Study Podcast, episode 358. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Psalms with Psalm 15.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We go to Psalm 15 today.

We'll probably also do Psalm 16. Psalm 15 is a Psalm of David.

Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent, who may live on your holy mountain, the one whose walk is

blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart, whose tongue utters no slander,

who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others, who despises a vile person but

honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change

their mind, who lends money to the poor without interest,

who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.

Whoever does these things will never be shaken.

So this is a Psalm of David.

The first thing I noticed with that is the pastoral and nomadic background that David is referring to here, Lord who may dwell in your

sacred tent. And I was just struck by that just mainly because I'm recently back from Jordan,

where I spent some time in the tent of Bedouins and modern-day Bedouins. And there is still a

tie back to that culture.

And David, even though he is living in a city in Bethlehem, he spends time as a shepherd,

and there's still a tie of these people to the land and to that time period.

And remember at that time, this is the time before the temple.

And so God still dwelt for them in the tabernacle, this is the time before the temple. And so God still

dwelled for them in the tabernacle, in the tent, in the holy tent. And so I think of that just because

it gives a grounding for the culture and the people of David's time. And I think that as we

understand this, it's good for us to understand it in that culture and then try and apply it to our culture.

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