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Psalm 26 Bible study: I have walked in my integrity
"Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart" (26:2) has three different Hebrew verbs for testing, and no other verse in the Hebrew Bible has all three. And Psalm 26 walks through Psalm 1's first verse: walk, sit, stand, the wicked and sinners, ending "My foot stands in an even place" (26:12).
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“LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.”
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“In Psalm 26 the psalmist asks the LORD to examine him and prove him.”
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What's really going on
Integrity, first and last
The title is "By David" (26:1), and names no occasion. The psalm opens with a request and a reason: "Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering" (26:1) (tap integrity, wavering). Near its end it says it again: "But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me" (26:11) (tap Redeem). In Hebrew integrity is the same word both times, tom, which Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "completeness, integrity". The WEB has have walked the first time and will walk the second. Without wavering has a verb Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "slip, slide, totter, shake", and the psalm's last verse has a foot that stands: "My foot stands in an even place" (26:12) (tap stands, even place).
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The rest of Psalm 26 is waiting in Favor
- Examine, prove, try
- Walk, sit, stand
- The house he loves
- Innocent hands, in Genesis and Psalm 73
- "Don’t gather my soul"
- "Don’t gather my soul", and the wheat and the weeds
- 7 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
תֹּםtomsay TOHM
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "completeness, integrity"; also "innocence, simplicity". The psalm opens and nearly closes with it: "Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity" (26:1), and "But as for me, I will walk in my integrity" (26:11). The Psalms have it seven times in Hebrew, among them "Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me" (Psalm 7:8), and "As for me, you uphold me in my integrity" (Psalm 41:12), which opens with the same two Hebrew words as 26:11. Abimelech has it beside innocence: "I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands" (Genesis 20:5).
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Psalm 26 Bible study questions
- 1"Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind" (26:2). Would you ask God for that? What makes it an easy or a hard prayer for you?
- 2Psalm 26 speaks of where the psalmist will not sit (26:4-5) and of the place he loves (26:8). What shapes the places and the company you choose most weeks?
- 3"LORD, I love the habitation of your house" (26:8). What draws you to gather with God's people, and what keeps you away?
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