The Kingdom
- When
- c. 1000–400 BC, many from David’s time
- Written by
- David and others
- Chapters
- 150
The big idea
The prayer book of Israel and of the Church: 150 songs of praise, lament, thanks and trust, covering every human mood before God.
Themes
- Praise
- Trust
- Lament
- The coming King
Memory verse
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Key passages
- 1The two ways
- 23The LORD is my shepherd
- 51Have mercy upon me, O God
- 110The king and priest
- 150Let everything that has breath praise the LORD
Links to other Scripture
- Matthew 27:46Jesus prays Psalm 22
- Acts 2:25–36Peter preaches the Psalms
- Ephesians 5:19Psalms, hymns and songs
- Hebrews 1:5–13The Son in the Psalms
Read the text
Choose a chapter to read it here in the King James Version. Verses with a dotted underline have notes from Bible scholars. Tap one to open them.
Notes from
Chapters
King James text and the commentaries of Henry, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Gill, Clarke, Calvin, and Keil and Delitzsch are in the public domain. Tyndale Open Study Notes are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, from tyndaleopenresources.com. Texts were reformatted for this site.
Journal prompts
Keep a journal or notebook for your study. Write your answers there, in your own words.
- Where do you see Christ in this book?
- Choose one psalm that is close to how you feel today and write it out in your own words.
- The psalmists say the hard things out loud: fear, anger, doubt. What have you not yet said to God?
- Pick a psalm of praise and read it aloud. What do you have to be thankful for that you have overlooked?
- In one sentence, this book is about…