We know the other names to which he here adverts, but what is this "HILL MIZAR?" The answer can only be conjectural. It may be some small mountain eminence among the hills of Judah associated with the experiences of his earlier days. May not memory possibly have travelled back to the old home and valleys of Bethlehem, and lighted perchance on the green slope where the youthful champion measured his prowess with the lion and the bear. As the soldier reverts with lively interest to his first battle-field, so may not the young Shepherd-Hero have loved to dwell on this Mizar hill, where the God he served gave him the earnest of more momentous triumphs? Or, to make one other surmise, may it more likely refer to "_the little hill_" he most loved,--the home of his thoughts, the earthly centre of his affections, the glory of his kingdom, the joy of the whole earth--"_Mount Zion_, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King?"[60] We find Zion spoken of by him emphatically as "a _little hill_." In one of the sublimest of all his Psalms, he represents the other loftier mountains of Palestine,--Bashan with its forests of oak, Carmel with its groves of terebinth, Lebanon with its cedar-clad summits,--as looking with envy at the tiny eminence amid the wilds of Judah which God had chosen as the place of His sanctuary: "_Why look ye with envy, ye high hills? this is the hill where God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever._"[61] Is the hypothesis a forced or unlikely one, that, in this his season of sore depression and sorrow, he loved to linger on manifold experiences of God's faithfulness associated with _Zion_,--its tabernacle, its festivals, its joyous multitudes--his own palace, that crowned its rocky heights, where his harp was oft attuned and his psalms composed and sung, and in which midnight found him rising and giving "thanks to God because of His righteous judgments?" In the mind of the Sweet Singer of Israel, might not "glorious things" have been thought as well as "spoken of thee, O city of God?" [60] Psalm xlviii. 2. [61] Psalm lxviii. 16. But, after all, we need not limit the interpretation to any special locality. The speaker's past history, from the hour when he was taken from the sheepfolds till now, was crowded with Mizars--hill-tops gleaming in the rays of morning. The valley of Elah, the wood of Ziph, the forest of Hareth, the streets of Ziklag,[62] the caves of Adullam and Engedi,--all would recall some special memorial of God's delivering hand. He resolves to take the goodness and mercy vouchsafed in the past, as pledges that He would still be faithful who had promised to "David His servant," "My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted."[63] "Thou who _hast_ delivered my soul from death, wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?"[64] [62] 1 Sam. xxx. 6. [63] Psalm lxxxix. 24.