May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah
David wrote this psalm not as a royal command for his own glory, but as a teacher giving the Church a common form of prayer, that God's kingdom, which He Himself erected, might continue safe and prosperous. The occasion may have been a particular battle, but the Spirit's design was to deliver a standing prayer for all God's people.
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Commenting on Psalm 20:1-9
"Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah." Before war kings offered sacrifice, upon the acceptance of which the depended for success; our blessed Lord presented himself as a victim, and was a sweet savour unto the Most High, and then he met and routed the embattled legions of hell.
Even great men who pray well must not despise the prayers of others for them; David himself desired his people's intercession. Those in power ought to prize praying people as their true strength and do nothing to forfeit their prayers, for a ruler's greatness cannot exempt him from trouble or excuse him from devotion.
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Commenting on Psalm 20:1-5