I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
This defiant refusal of fear was sung and written when David was a dethroned and crownless king fleeing Jerusalem at the rebellion of Absalom. At that time he was spent with grief and weary from flight. With his company of men, women and little children he had tarried beside the Jordan for a few hours' rest before being awakened by the summons to immediate flight, having then to make in night darkness the passage of the deep and swift-flowing stream while the forces of his traitor son pressed hard after them.
In that darkest peril ten thousands of people surrounded him and set themselves against him round about, with his own son seeking his life, his subjects deserting him, and a great pursuing force creating overwhelming danger and opposition. The declaration breathes trust and confidence in God in the darkest trial, freedom from fear with a heart stayed upon Him. He was unafraid because his confidence was in God, who had heard his voiced cry out of His holy hill and had protected and sustained him through the night when he lay down and slept and awoke.
This defiant refusal of fear was sung and written when David was a dethroned and crownless king fleeing Jerusalem at the rebellion of Absalom. At that time he was spent with grief and weary from flight. With his company of men, women and little children he had tarried beside the Jordan for a few hours' rest before being awakened by the summons to immediate flight, having then to make in night darkness the passage of the deep and swift-flowing stream while the forces of his traitor son pressed hard after them.
In that darkest peril ten thousands of people surrounded him and set themselves against him round about, with his own son seeking his life, his subjects deserting him, and a great pursuing force creating overwhelming danger and opposition. The declaration breathes trust and confidence in God in the darkest trial, freedom from fear with a heart stayed upon Him. He was unafraid because his confidence was in God, who had heard his voiced cry out of His holy hill and had protected and sustained him through the night when he lay down and slept and awoke.