Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 18:43
People — From contentions, and seditions, under Saul, and Ishbosheth, and Absalom. Heathens — Of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, Syrians, and others. Not known — Even barbarous and remote nations.
People — From contentions, and seditions, under Saul, and Ishbosheth, and Absalom. Heathens — Of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, Syrians, and others. Not known — Even barbarous and remote nations.
Verse Psalms 18:43. _THE STRIVINGS OF THE PEOPLE_] Disaffections and insurrections among my own subjects, as in the revolt of _Absalom_, the _civil war of Abner_ in favour of _Ish-bosheth_, c. _THE...
THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE STRIVINGS OF THE PEOPLE - From the contentions of the people; or, from the efforts which they have made to overcome and subdue me. The allusion is to the efforts made b...
Psalms 18 The Story of God's Power in Behalf of Christ _ 1. In the jaws of death (Psalms 18:1)_ 2. God appearing and delivering (Psalms 18:7) 3. God gave Him glory ...
XVIII. See p. 367 for the reasons which make it impossible to ascribe this Ps. to David. Even scholars who hold traditional views admit that he cannot have written it as it stands, and that additional...
HEATHEN. nations, or Gentile peoples....
_from the strivings of the people_ 2 Sam. has "from the strivings of my people," and the reference seems to be to the civil war and internal dissension which disturbed the early years of David's reign...
The establishment of David's dominion at home and abroad....
THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE STRIVINGS OF THE PEOPLE— From that conflict between the tribes, or the civil war, which was raised by Abner in favour of Ishbosheth, and from the invasions of the Phili...
PSALMS 18 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE David's Song of Deliverance. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 18:1-6, By many Epithets of Admiration, the Psalmist proclaims Jehovah as Worthy of Praise, for Delivering him fr...
_FOR THOU WILT LIGHT MY CANDLE: THE LORD MY GOD WILL ENLIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after he ha...
Of all the Pss. this is the one which can be ascribed with greatest confidence to David. It is found, with some variations, in 2 Samuel 22, and the title is largely taken from 2 Samuel 22:1. It consis...
HEATHEN] RV 'nations.' So in Psalms 18:49. David subdued all the countries around Palestine (2 Samuel 8). SHALL SERVE] This and the following future tenses to the end of Psalms 18:45 are better render...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
PEOPLE. — The parallelism favours the interpretation which takes “people” as equivalent to _peoples_ — the Gentiles. But as in Samuel it is “my people,” explain it of the early political troubles of D...
_[Psalms 18:44]_ תְּפַלְּטֵנִי֮ מֵ רִ֪יבֵ֫י עָ֥ם תְּ֭שִׂימֵנִי...
Psalms 18:1 THE description of the theophany (Psalms 18:7) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories (Psalms 18:32) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former case by devout imag...
GIRDED WITH STRENGTH FOR SERVICE Psalms 18:27 God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him through the...
This is one of the most majestic and beautiful of the worship psalms. It is at once a perfect pattern of praise and therefore a great revelation of the method and might and mercy of God. So clear and...
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the (g) heathen: a people [whom] I have not (h) known shall serve me. (g) Who dwell round about me. (h) T...
How beautiful are these verses, in reference to the conversion of the Gentiles. Here surely, as before, David's history falls far short of celebrating such victories. But seen with an eye to Christ, h...
43._Thou shalt deliver me from the contentions of the people. _David states, in a few words, that he had experienced the assistance of God in all variety of ways. He was in great danger from the tumul...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE STRIVINGS OF THE PEOPLE,.... In 2 Samuel 22:44, it is read "my people", meaning the people of Israel; either Saul and his men, who contended with David, and sought his...
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me. Ver. 43. _Thou hast delivered me from the st...
_Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people_ From the contentions, seditions, and tumults of my own people under Saul, and during the civil war raised by Abner in favour of Ishbosheth, wh...
GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people, preserving him in the midst of all internal conflicts; AND THOU HAST MADE ME THE HEAD OF THE HEATHEN, the ruler over all the nations round abou...
29-50 When we praise for one mercy, we must observe the many more, with which we have been compassed all our days. Many things had contributed to David's advancement, and he owns the hand of God in t...
FROM THE STRIVINGS OF THE PEOPLE; from contentions, and seditions, and tumults of my own people under Saul, and Ish-bosheth, and Absalom. THE HEAD OF THE HEATHEN; of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites,...
Psalms 18:43 delivered H6403 (H8762) strivings H7379 people H5971 made H7760 (H8799) head H7218 nations H1471 peopl
DAVID DESCRIBES HIS WIDESPREAD VICTORIES WHICH ARE ALL DUE TO GOD (PSALMS 18:43). Psalms 18:43 ‘You have delivered me from the strivings of the people, You have made me the head of the nations, A...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler, and my horn of my salvation, and my hi...
CONTENTS: Praise for God's marvelous deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God not only will deliver His trusting people out of their difficulties in due time, but will give them grace t...
David prays here in his own person, this being a psalm of memorial, when the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of Saul and of all his enemies. But as he ever worshipped with the promise at his c...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:1. This royal psalm celebrates the way God has shown his love to his people by giving them the Davidic monarchy and by preserving David through many dangers (see v....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:31 David’s rescue (vv. Psalms 18:16) came by way of his military skill, which was itself God’s gift....
INTRODUCTION “This magnificent triumphal hymn was composed by David in celebration of his deliverance from his enemies. But the sublimity of the figures used in it, and the consent of ancient commenta...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm has many characteristics which distinguish it, not only from all that have preceded it in the collection, but from all those which are assigned to David by their titles. In the f...
The eighteenth psalm has a long title to it. It is to chief musician. It is a psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered hi...
1 Peter 2:10; 2 Samuel 10:1; 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 2:9; 2 Sa