Subdued

Judges 4:23-5:1,31 – So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel. And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:.. “So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.”

Psalm 144:1-2 – Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Psalm 32:7 – You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah

Exodus 15:11 – “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

Deuteronomy 32:21,34-35 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation…“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries? Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’

1 Samuel 2:1-2,10 – And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God…The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

2 Samuel 23:2-4 – “The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue. The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

Luke 1:54-55,68-79 – He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”… “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.   And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Application:

• ·         My loving God means literally, my unfailing love; so called because God is the source of benevolent acts of love that David can count on—just as God can be called my salvation because He is the source of salvation.
• ·         Because of God’s help, David was surrounded by people celebrating God’s acts of deliverance, as David brought my thank offerings to God.
• ·         The Lord, who tolerates no rivals, has defeated all the gods of Egypt and their worshipers.
• ·         Israel’s failed to understand the good news about Christ.
• ·         The Lord’s plans for the future are fixed and certain. Sin will be punished in due time.
• ·         Avenging is God’s prerogative.
• ·         The supreme source of Hannah’s joy is not in the child, but in the God who has answered her prayer.
• ·         Rock is a metaphor to depict the strength and stability of the God of Israel as the unfailing source of security for His people.
• ·         Hannah’s prayer is here prophetic, anticipating the establishment of kingship in Israel and the initial realization of the Messianic ideal in David.
• ·         David was conscious of God’s Spirit at work in him enabling him to speak under the Spirit’s guidance.
• ·         In brief and vivid strokes David portrays the ideal theocratic king—to be fully realized only in the rule of David’s greater son, Jesus Christ.
• ·         God will be true to His promises to His people.
• ·         Redemption of His people is not limited to national security, but includes moral and spiritual salvation.
• ·         Zechariah not only praised his own son, the prophet of the Most High, but also gave honor to the coming Messiah.
• ·         As Lord of the covenant and royal Head of His people Israel, He demanded their love, just as kings in the ancient Near East demanded the love of their subjects.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV