Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We open today with Psalm 89, which was written by a guy named Ethan.

This is possibly the only Psalm he wrote, but some people think he also went by the name

Chiduthan who wrote two other Psalms.

There are a few really confusing things in this chapter, so let's walk through them.

First, verse 10 tells us that God destroyed Rahab.

Crushed Rahab like a carcass is actually what the ESP says.

If you don't have a study Bible and you didn't Google this, you might be like, I thought

they saved Rahab.

I don't recall any carcass crushing.

You're right.

This isn't talking about Rahab the Canaanite.

The words are spelled the same in Hebrew, but pronounced differently, kind of like our

words wind and wind or live and live.

This version of the word most likely refers to either Egypt or to a mythological beast who

causes chaos.

So this verse is either showing God's victory over a world power or just over chaos itself.

You may have also seen in verse 27 that David is called the first born here, and that may

be confusing, because as we've talked about previously, Jesus is the first born.

Yes and yes, two firstborns, actually three, because Israel is called the first born

of a people group, and David is the first born of the Kingly line God has established,

and Jesus is the first born, the exalted David, the fulfillment of prophecies.

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