And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
Worshipped the Lord, and the king. Though the external attitude might be the same, the sentiments of which it was expressive were very different in the two cases-of divine worship in the one, of civil homage in the other. But the latter was recognized in a theocratic kingdom as vicegerent of Yahweh.