The debate in many Reformed circles over worship music is only a small part of the larger question of Reformed liturgics. All sides admit that the New Testament offers relatively little instruction on liturgy, and so the debate over the regulative principle continues with apparently little hope for resolution. In this study, Peter Leitharts key insight reveals a prominent scriptural example of a liturgy that interprets Gods commands for worship in ways far more biblically grounded than traditional regulativism allows. King Davids tabernacle worship becomes a rich story, not only in respect to liturgical wisdom, but also to the significance of Zion in the fulfillments of the Christian era.

Peter Leithart (Ph.D. Cambridge) is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a senior fellow of theology and literature at New St. Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho. He is author of A House for My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament, The Kingdom and the Power, and Blessed are the Hungry: Meditations on the Lords Supper. He and his wife Noel have nine children.

Preface 1. The Problem of Davidic Worship 2. According to the Pattern 3. Some for Priests and Levites 4. Sacrifices of Praise 5. The Booth of David 6. The Ends of Song Scripture Index