Tag: Hallelujah

        Though George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece was called the “Hallelujah Chorus”, the original composition preceded it by over 2,500 years.  The final five psalms in the Psalter begin and end with the same exuberant exclamation “Praise the Lord!” (which translates the Hebrew word “hallelujah”).   …

       Most likely the last psalm David wrote in his life is found in Second Samuel 23.  According to verse one, the last words of David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, are found in verses 2 to 7.  Because the Psalter has been…