{"id":2644,"date":"2023-11-17T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:09:21","slug":"evensong-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 56"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231117_104213-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231117_104213-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231117_104213-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231117_104213.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm deals with young David being \u201ccaptured\u201d by the Philistines in the city of Gath \u2014 this according to the psalm\u2019s heading. David had run away from King Saul, who was trying to kill the young rival for his throne; and had taken refuge with these \u201cCretans\u201d who worshiped other gods.<br><br>\u201cIn God I have put my trust,\u201d David the refugee says twice, early and late in this psalm. \u201cI will not be afraid. What can man do to me?\u201d Well, if what David himself did to his rivals means anything, then the answer to his question is, \u201cA lot,\u201d and much of it was barbaric, even to his own people.<br><br>\u201cVows made to You are binding upon me,\u201d young David prays to YHWH. I guess that changed after he left Gath, returned to Jerusalem, and became king of Israel. I guess \u201cThou Shalt Nots\u201d don\u2019t apply to kings. After all, they aren\u2019t really vows, as such; they\u2019re rules made to be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm deals with young David being \u201ccaptured\u201d by the Philistines in the city of Gath \u2014 this according to the psalm\u2019s heading. David had run away from King Saul, who was trying to kill the young rival for his throne; and had taken refuge with these \u201cCretans\u201d who worshiped other gods. \u201cIn God I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 56<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}