God Save the King!

As Charles Spurgeon comments on this Psalm, it is in many ways the first Psalm. It is the first Psalm with a title, the first Psalm that uses the word "Selah," and the first Psalm after the two great introductory Psalms. In it, the general conflict between the righteous and the wicked from Psalm 1, which was sharpened into the conflict between God and Christ on one side and the rebellious nations on the other in Psalm 2, is now rendered as the particular, concrete battle between David (on God's side) and Absalom (who is against God). Yet, of course, the message is the same here as in the previous Psalms: God is going to win, and God's Anointed is going to win. In this Psalm, as we will see, God saves His king, breaks the teeth of the wicked, blesses His people, and reveals Himself as Savior.