Tehilim Perek 132

Tehilim Perek 132 Hello everybody, in today’s NachDaily we’ll be discussing Tehilim chapter 132 in the Shir Hama’alos chapters. The perek corresponds to what happened with Dovid at the end of Sefer Shmuel. In order to stop a plague, Gad Hanavi instructed Dovid to purchase Har Hamoriyah from a man named Aravna Hayivusi. After the purchase, Dovid built an altar and brought korbonos, sacrifices, to Hashem. The plague stopped, and the people were saved. Although not mentioned at the end of Sefer Shmuel, in Divrei Hayomim Aleph perek 21, it says that on buying the land Dovid explicitly stated that this is the house of God and the Mizbayach, Altar, for the Jewish nation. Up until that very moment the exact spot of the Beis Hamkidash had not been known. Although Dovid didn’t build the Beis Hamikdash, he wanted Hashem to consider his thoughts as if they were his actions The perek opens with Dovid’s intense desire to find a home for God to rest in. While growing up in Ephrat, Dovid had heard from the elders that God would one day choose a home for Himself where mankind would be able to serve Him. The chapter moves on to quote several pessukim that overlap from Divrei Hayomim Beis, perek 6. At the inauguration of the Beis Hamikdash, Shlomo invited Hashem to enter His place of rest, inviting the Kohanim to rejoice in front of the Ahron, holy Ark. The author reiterates that Hashem swore to Dovid that the kingship will stay in his family and move to his son Shlomo. The last part of the pe