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talk about your review coming up. CJ, we're in Psalm 71 through 75 today. Can you kind of

position us in this book, where are we at, and what Psalm are we going to focus on today?

Yep. So today we're going to focus on Psalm 72. And even though we're going through Psalm 71 through 75,

Psalm 72 is actually the final Psalm in Book 2 of the Psalter. So we might have talked about this

before. There are five books of the Psalter, or five books within the Psalter, and this is the

end of book two. And this is also the final prayer of David, it says in the final verse of Psalm 72.

So this is like a very capstone Psalm, and we're going to see why in a second. Okay. So books one

and two focus on Saul, David, and then this final Psalm is spoken by Solomon, David's son.

And in Psalm 72, Solomon looks to the day

when the messianic king will reign. So if you remember in 2 Samuel 7, this is when God speaks to

David and makes what's called the Davidic covenant, where God promises that there will be a future

king who will reign forever on the throne of

David. It'll be somebody from David's line. And now Solomon, David's first son, or David's son,

who takes up his throne, is looking to the future and anticipating what that sort of reign will

look like. And that's what this Psalm is about. Okay, great. So that's really helpful context. What does

this psalms say about the messianic king's reign? So Solomon imagine a king who is righteous,

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