Psalm 3: A Deposed King’s Desperate Plea

Psalms 3–8 E1 — We’re starting a short series on Psalms 3–8, the next literary bundle following the introduction to the Psalms scroll. Psalm 3 begins with a very specific heading that informs how we should read it: “A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.” What story does the heading refer to and how does it help us interpret David’s words in the psalm? In this episode, Jon and Tim explore David and Absalom’s debacle in 2 Samuel, alongside a desperate yet hope–filled psalm from the king’s darkest hour.