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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 18 - Introduction

* David rejoices in the deliverances God wrought for him. (1-19) He takes the comfort of his integrity, which God had cleared up. (20-28) He gives to God the glory of all his mighty deeds. (29-50)

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See also Psalms 18 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This psalm is found, with some unimportant variations, in 2 Samuel 22. In that history, as in the inscription of the psalm here, it is said to have been composed by David on the occasion when the Lord...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    At length the warrior-king was at peace. The hairbreadth escapes of his flight from Saul, when his life was in hourly peril and he knew not whither to turn for safety; the miseries and bitterness of c...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 seat (a-27) Or 'in the company.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XVIII. This magnificent ode is David’s, if anything at all of David’s has come down to us. Its recurrence in 2 Samuel 22, the mention of the monarch by name in the last verse (see, however, Note), an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 18 TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, [A PSALM] OF DAVID. This is the same with that in 2 Samuel 22:1, with some variations, omissions, and alterations: THE SERVANT OF THE LORD; not only b...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._ This Psalm, which, with some few and small variations, occurs in the second book of Samuel, chap. 22., was composed by David, on the occasion here mentioned, in gratitude to G...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Heading. ‘For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of YHWH, who spoke to YHWH the words of this song in the day that YHWH delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand...

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