Heman the Ezrahite

Heman the Ezrahite is the author of Psalm 88 in the Hebrew Bible, according to the Psalm's title. 'Heman' is a Jewish name (Hebrew: חימן HaYMahN) meaning 'Faithful'. It is found sixteen times in the New International Version of the Bible.[1] Heman the Ezrahite may be one of the three Levites assigned by King David to be ministers of music. This Heman was a grandson of Samuel the prophet[2] who went on to become King David's seer, and to have fourteen sons and three daughters.[3]

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Psalm 88 seems to have been written in a state of despair. According to Martin Marty, a professor of church history at the University of Chicago, Psalm 88 is “a wintry landscape of unrelieved bleakness.”

Nevertheless, the appeal to God in Psalm 88 begins with the following expression of faith: "O Yahweh, God of my salvation!" Three times (vss. 1, 9, and 13) the psalmist calls on the name of Yahweh. The psalmist accompanies each invocation with a reference to his perseverance in prayer. For example, in verse nine he declares, "I call on you, O Yahweh, every day."[4]

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References
  1. http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=Heman&version1=31&searchtype=all
  2. 1 Chronicles 6:33–34
  3. 1 Chronicles 25:5
  4. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+88&version=LEB


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