Day 122 (Psalm 133) - Year 8

Tara-Leigh Cobble· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hey, Bible readers. I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. We officially passed the one-third mark in our reading plan today. Congratulations. Every year when I get to this day in the reading plan, it makes me laugh. I don't know why the people who put the plan together did it this way, but some of you are glad because it gives you a chance to catch up if you're behind. Even though it's short, there's a lot more to Psalm 133 than meets the eye. First, this is one of the songs of ascent, so this would be a song the Israelites sing as they travel on foot from wherever their tribal allotment happens to be all the way to Jerusalem three times a year. These are all hopeful, triumphant praise songs, but they each have a bit of a different angle on what they're praising God for. So what were they singing about this time? Here's a little bit of a background on where this psalm likely came from. Do you remember back in Genesis 13 when Abram and Lot had to part ways because the land wouldn't support them both? This happened again in Genesis 36 with Jacob and Esau. They had made up after years of fighting and being estranged from one another, but they had so many family members and such large flocks that the amount of land required to feed everyone was too much, so they had to separate. In both instances, the phrase used is the same one used here to say, "Dwell in unity." When David says, "How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity,"