Abstract
Old Testament religion is temporalist with its invitation to do God's will so that he rewards us with temporal goods, given that there is no perspective of reward beyond the grave. God's justice must be fulfilled in this life. On the other hand, it is presumed that Israel is the People of the Covenant, chosen by God, with the promises to the patriarchs that the Israelites had to become masters of the lands of the canaanites. Once this aspiration was accomplished and when the kingdom of David was established, the expansion towards Transjordania gave rise to dreams of empire. On the occasion of the enthronement of a new king, the psalmist wished these nationalistic hopes on him, given that the religion of the O. T. can be defined as national-monostheistic
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