Psalms 131 - Introduction

A.M. 2946. B.C. 1058.

David is thought, by most commentators, to have written this Psalm in answer to the calumnies of Saul and his courtiers, who represented him as an ambitious, aspiring man, who, under pretence of a divine appointment, sought the kingdom in the pride of his heart. He appeals to God, on the contrary, that he aimed at nothing high or great, but was very easy in the condition which God allotted him, Psalms 131:1; Psalms 131:2. He encourages all good people to trust in God as he did, 3.