Hebrew
Highlights 76 - CHARIOTS
Shalom. This is Yuval
Shomron, coming to you from Jerusalem.
PSA 20:1-9, “(For the choir
director. A Psalm of David.) May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May
the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high! May He send you help from the sanctuary, And
support you from Zion! May He remember
all your meal offerings, And find your burnt offering acceptable! Selah. May He grant you your heart's desire, And
fulfill all your counsel! We will sing
for joy over your victory, And in the name of our God we will set up our
banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven, With the saving strength of His right
hand. Some boast in chariots, and some
in horses; But we will boast in the name of the Lord, our God. They have bowed down and fallen; But we have
risen and stood upright. Save, O Lord;
May the King answer us in the day we call.”
Let’s take a look for a moment at
verse 7 of this Psalm, “Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; But we will
boast in the name of the Lord, our God.”
The word translated here as “boast” is in Hebrew, “zochrim”, meaning
really, “remember”. Some translations of
the Bible actually say remember, and others use trust. The point is, who do we remember to call on
in times of trouble?
The word for “chariots” is
“rechavot”. Today, a similar word,
“rechev”, is used to mean “vehicle”.
Horses are simply horses. The use
of these words here, symbolize power.
Chariots and horses invoke pictures of a mighty army. The question posed in the Psalm, and it’s
obvious answer, is “Who will save us?
Only the Lord can do so.” Armies
often fail, but the God of Hosts is our refuge and strength.
Verse 6 tells us that the Lord
saves His anointed ones. In Hebrew, as
you may already know, the word here is “meshichim” or messianics, or from a New
Testament Greek standpoint, Christians.
Who do you put your trust in? Maybe you sometimes turn for help to a
powerful church, a powerful government, or a powerful person.
Remember what happened to
Pharaoh’s chariots and horses, and indeed His whole army? We need to be able to say, along with Moses
and the children of Israel as they fled Egypt, “We will boast in the name of
the Lord, our God.”
Shalom, Shalom , from Jerusalem.