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Psalms Scroll 4
This scroll-preserved colophon enumerates David's prophetic output: 3,600 psalms, 364 daily burnt-offering songs, 52 Sabbath songs, 30 songs for new moons, festivals, and the Day of Atonement, and 446 additional compositions — 4,050 works total. Verse 4 anchors the entire body of work in the spirit of prophecy granted to David from before El Elyon, the Most High God. That phrase surfaces the Father-of-the-Father pattern: David's compositions were not his own invention but utterances given through the prophetic spirit from above Jehovah. The Hallelujah closes with praise directed back to Jehovah as God of David.
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And David, the son of Jesse, was wise; and a light like the light of the sun; and a scribe; and a man of understanding; and perfect in all his ways before God and men. The Lord gave unto him a luminous and discerning spirit.
2
And he wrote three thousand and six hundred psalms; and songs to sing before the altar over the burnt offering, day by day, for all the days of the year — three hundred and sixty and four; and for the offering of the sabbaths — fifty and two songs; and for the offering of the new moons, and for all the days of the festivals, and for the day of atonement — thirty songs.
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And all the songs that he composed were four hundred and forty and six; and songs for making music over the smitten — four. And the total was four thousand and fifty.
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All these did he speak through the spirit of prophecy, which was given him from before the Most High. Blessed be the Lord, the God of David. Hallelujah.
