Love the lessons
from this of having people to gather together and sacrifice and praise the Lord
and recount his blessings and majesty. The ways of blessing through food and
music and community. Covenant and promise. Rescue and redemption and
grandiosity and comfort. Amens. Family.
They brought the ark
of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they
presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings
before God. After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and
fellowship offerings, he blessed the
people in the name of the LORD. Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates
and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.
He appointed some of the Levites to minister
before the ark of the LORD, to extol, thank, and praise the Lord, the God of
Israel: Asaph, Sechariah,
Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel.
They were to play the lyres and harps, the cymbals, and the trumpets before the
ark of the covenant of God.
To give thanks in
this manner:
Give praise to the
Lord, proclaim his name, make known among
the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his
wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the
Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always. Remember
the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, you his
servants, the descendants, of Israel, his chosen ones, the sons of Jacob.
He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand
generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an
everlasting covenant:
“To you I will give
the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.”
When they were but
few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to
nation, from one kingdom to another. He
allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings: “Do not
touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”
Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day
after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among
all peoples.
For great is the
Lord and most worthy of praise; he
is to be feared above all gods. For
all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and joy are in his dwelling place. Ascribe to the Lord, all you
families of nations, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name,
bring
an offering and come before him.
Worship the Lord in
the splendor of his holiness.
Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly
established; it cannot be moved.
Let the heavens
rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, “The Lord
reigns!”
Let the sea resound,
and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them! Let
the trees of the forest sing, let them sing for joy before the Lord, for he
comes to judge the earth.
Give thanks to the Lord,
for
he is good; his love endures forever.
Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the
nations, that we may give thanks to
your holy name, and glory in your praise.”
Praise be to the
Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Then all the people said,
“Amen” and “Praise the LORD.”
David left them
before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister regularly according to
each day’s requirements.
After they gave
everything they had, they headed back, each to
his own family. : D
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