The Bible in a Year

Psalms

Psalm 125 to 132

Read this coming week:
Jun 6 1 Kgs 3‐4, Ps 125, Titus 1‐3 Jun 7 1 Kgs 5‐6, Ps 126, Philem Jun 8 1
Kgs 7, Ps 127, Heb 1‐3 Jun 9 1 Kgs 8, Ps 128, Heb 4‐6 Jun 10 1 Kgs 9‐10,
Ps 129, Heb 7‐8 Jun 11 1 Kgs 11, Ps 130, Heb 9 Jun 12 1 Kgs 12‐13, Ps
131, Heb 10 Jun 13 1 Kgs 14‐15, Ps 132, Heb 11

Reading Questions
For next week you’re reading Psalms 125 to 132.
Answer the following:
• Does 125 remind you of what Jesus said about the
“gates of hell?”
• What important agricultural life lessons are
learned in 126?
• What important manufacturing lessons do you
learn in 127?
• What will your life be like if you “fear the Lord”
according to 128?
• What might “the plowers plowed upon my back”
be symbolically talking about in 129?
 • What is the psalmist doing in 130?
• What might the symbolism of a “weaned child” be
suggesting about the psalmist in 131?
• What time do you think the psalmist in 132 is
writing in?
The Pilgrimage Festivals of
Jerusalem
The “Songs of Ascent” are thought to have been sung
while pilgrims were journeying from their hometowns to
Jerusalem for various religious festivals. Surely, the
greatest of these festivals would have been Passover,
but there were actually three festivals that would have
encouraged Israel to journey to the political and
religious capital.

All three of these festivals continue to be celebrated by

devout Jews.

• Passover – the feast commemorating Israel’s

rescue and departure from Egypt
• Shavuot – Festival of Weeks or Festival of
Firstfruits, the festival wherein Israel would bring
the first of the harvest crop as an offering to God.
(Pentecost occurs during Shavuot).
• Sukkot – Feast of Booths/Tabernacles, the festival
recalling the memory of living in the wilderness
for 40 years. During this festival, the pilgrim
would camp outside in tents.
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