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All right, we're continuing our series through the Salter this morning,

this Lord's Day. Our Psalm is Psalm 42. If you were with us, last Lord's Day, I spent the

entirety of that sermon giving an introduction to this song, speaking through, well, exegeting

Numbers, Chapter 16, the sons of Cora, who they were,

and setting the stage for this Psalm.

I believe that the author of the Psalm was King David, and that it's attributed to the

sons of Cora because the sons of Cora, a worship band, a worship team for lack of a better,

a lack of a better description. They were a worship team in Israel under the Old Covenant and the Sons of Cora so often sang this particular Psalm that it was likened to them.

But I do believe that King David was the original author, and I believe that the setting

in which he wrote this particular Psalm is when he was on the run. He was banished effectively

from Israel, and therefore the tabernacle, the temple was not yet built. It would later be built

by his son Solomon, but the tabernacle, it dwelt in Israel.

David was on the run either from King Saul before David came into the kingship, or he was banished

effectively from Israel on the run from Absalom, his traitor son, who betrayed him.

And the scripture says he slowly but surely won all the hearts of Israel away from

his father.

He would stand outside of the palace when people would come to David with some kind

of conflict, some kind of problem, needing a solution and

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