Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Samuel 22:29
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2. DAVID'S SONG OF DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (2 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. The sorrows of the past (2 Samuel 22:5) 3. God's presence and intervention (2 Samuel 22:8) 4. R
1 SAMUEL 22. PSALMS 18. This poem is dealt with in the commentary on the Psalms (Psalms book comments, and Psalms 18 chapter comments.)....
LAMP. light....
God's faithfulness attested by the Psalmist's experience After celebrating God's goodness in delivering him from all the dangers which threatened his life, David goes on to describe how God had made...
_For thou_, &c. _For_connects this verse closely with 2 Samuel 22:29, as the confirmation out of his own experience of the principles there enunciated. _my lamp_ Illuminating all his life with the lig...
AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD—THIS SONG— As this fine poem of David's occurs in the book of Psalms, we shall not make any remark upon it till we come to its proper place. See Psalms 18....
_The Lord's Rewards._ 2 Samuel 22:21-31 21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the Lo...
_FOR THOU ART MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ For thou art my lamp, O Lord. The light of a lamp was an image in common use among the Hebrews for prosperity; while its extinct...
DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PSALM This beautiful poem has also been preserved as the Eighteenth Psalm. It probably belongs to the earlier portion of David's reign, when his conquests and God's promise (2 Sa...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID PRAISES THE *LORD V1 The *Lord had saved David from Saul and all his other enemies. So David sang this song to the *Lord....
THOU ART MY LAMP. — Comp. Psalms 27:1. The psalm changes the figure, “thou wilt light my candle (_margin,_ lamp).” With this comp. Psalms 132:17; 1 Kings 11:36;...
כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֥ה נֵירִ֖י יְהוָ֑ה וַ יהוָ֖ה יַגּ
CHAPTER XXX. THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING. 2 Samuel 22:1. SOME of David's actions are very characteristic of himself; there are other actions quite out of harmony with his character. This psalm of thank...
The character of David is revealed in the two psalms recorded here. In the first of these, found in this chapter, we find the deepest things concerning him. It may be well to note its main divisions,...
_Lamp. Hebrew Thair, "thou wilt light" my lamp, seems deficient; as it is found in some manuscripts, Syriac, Arabic, Psalm xvii., &c. (Kennicott)_...
(29) For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. (30) For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. It is delightful to make improvement of JESU...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. The songs that follow contain instruction of deep interest. In chapter 22 David comes forth from his sufferings and his affliction with a song of t...
FOR THOU [ART] MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS. Psalms 18:28....
A Psalme of thankesgiuing for Gods powerfull deliuerance, and manifold blessings. 1 AND Dauid spake vnto the LORD the wordes of this song, in the day that the LORD had deliuered him out of the hand o...
For Thou art my Lamp, O Lord, as the Source of all his joy and good fortune; AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS, by taking away all affliction, wretchedness, and ruin....
PRAISE AND PROPHECY...
This chapter presents David's song of triumph after God had subdued all his enemies under him. It is almost identical toPsalms 18:1, though with some variations. Of course faith realizes that God has...
LAMP: Or, candle...
2 Samuel 22:29 lamp H5216 LORD H3068 LORD H3068 enlighten H5050 (H8686) darkness H2822 lamp - or, candle,...
CONTENTS: David's song of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: No believer has so little from God but there is ground for praise, nor so much but that he has need to call upon God. Prais...
2 Samuel 22:25. _The Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness._ True indeed: but says St. Paul, the reward is not reckoned of debt, but of grace. See on Psalms 18:24....
_For Thou art my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord will lighten my darkness._ REJOICING IN THE LIGHT OF GOD The Rev. Dr. Horton, who, after a period of seclusion through trouble with his eyesight, recently...
_David spake unto the Lord the word of this song._ THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING Some of David’s actions are very characteristic of himself; there are other actions quite out of harmony with his character...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 22:1__ David’s song recorded in this chapter is almost identical with Psalms 18:1, where it was adapted to serve as a public hymn....
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 22:29. “LAMP.” “While _light_ is always the symbol of good fortune and well-being (Job 18:5), the burning lamp denotes the source of lasting happiness and joyfu...
EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, t...
In chapter twenty-two we have David's song of deliverance. Here is a psalm that is not in the Psalms, but it is here in second Samuel, and it is like the Psalms. It is one of David's psalms of God's d...
Isaiah 50:10; Isaiah 60:19; Isaiah 60:20; Job 29:3; John 12:46;...