Psalms 3 - Introduction

A.M. 2981. B.C. 1023.

As the foregoing Psalm, under the emblem of David in preferment, showed us the royal dignity of the Redeemer; so this, by the example of David in distress, shows us the peace and holy security of the redeemed, under the divine protection. David, being now driven out from his palace, from the royal city, by his rebellious son Absalom, complains to God of his enemies, Psalms 3:1; Psalms 3:2. Encourages and comforts himself in God, and in the experience he had had of the divine goodness, Psalms 3:3. Triumphs in the salvation of God, Psalms 3:7; Psalms 3:8. David either composed this Psalm during his flight, or the matter of it was then in his thoughts; which afterward he digested into this form and order. And a hymn could not easily be composed with greater propriety, or nobler sentiments of religion, upon such an extraordinary event as that of the rebellion of a beloved son, who had drawn many thousands of others into the conspiracy.