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Verse Psalms 18:23. _I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT_] The times in which David was
most afflicted were the times of his greatest uprightness. _Adversity_
was always to him a time of spiritual prosperity.
_MINE...
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I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM - Margin, with. The meaning is that he
was upright in his sight. The word rendered upright is the same which
in Job 1:1 is rendered perfect. See the note at that passage....
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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 ...
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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...
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BEFORE. with.
MINE INIQUITY. Some codices read "the wicked". Hebrew " _avah_.
App-44....
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DISCOURSE: 517
BESETTING SINS
Psalms 18:23. _I kept myself from mine iniquity._
NOTHING is a richer source of comfort to any man than the testimony of
his own conscience that he has acted right: for,...
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I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY— The affix י _jod, my_ to the noun
עון _avon_ may probably be merely supplemental, and not point out
any particular sin to which David was especially inclined. The Cha...
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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...
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_I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY._
I was also upright before him - literally, with Him (Genesis 17:1;
Deuteronomy 18:13). See God's own testimony to David (1 Kings...
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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...
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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...
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(20-23) for this protestation of innocence comp. Psalms 7:17 and Job,
_passim._ Self-righteous pride and vindication of one’s character
under calumny are very different things. If taken of the nation...
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_[Psalms 18:24]_ וָ אֱהִ֣י תָמִ֣ים עִמֹּ֑ו
וָ֝...
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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...
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A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
Psalms 18:1
There is another edition of this psalm in 2 Samuel 22:1.Psalms 18:2;
Psalms 18:2 and...
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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...
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I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine (f)
iniquity.
(f) I neither gave place to their wicked temptations nor to my own
desires....
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If there was no other passage in this Psalm to imply that David
delivered this song of praise under the spirit of prophecy, in
reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, than what these verses contain,
what...
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23._I was also upright with him. _All the verbs in this verse are put
by David in the future tense, _I will be upright, etc. _because he
does not boast of one act only, or of a good work performed by...
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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...
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I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM,.... In heart and conversation, being
sincere and faithful; so David was in the sight of God; but this is
much more true of Christ, in whom there was no unrighteousness n...
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I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Ver. 23. _I was also upright before him_] This he had because he kept
God's commandments, as Psalms 18:22, had respect to them all...
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_The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness_ “Commentators
have been much perplexed,” says Dr. Horne, “to account for these
unlimited claims to righteousness made by David, and that long after...
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A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY.
To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of
the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the
Lord, His p...
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I was also upright before Him, in the outward observance of the Law,
AND I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY, from bold transgression and
wickedness....
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BEFORE HIM:
_ Heb._ with...
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20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God.
But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not
be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon...
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I did not pretend religion before men for my own ends, but did approve
my heart and ways to the all-seeing God. AND I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE
INIQUITY, i e. from that sin which I was most inclined or te...
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Psalms 18:23 blameless H8549 kept H8104 (H8691) iniquity H5771
upright - Psalms 7:1 - Psalm
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DAVID'S GIVES THE EXPLANATION FOR HIS TRIUMPH (PSALMS 18:20).
David's explanation for YHWH's intervention on his behalf is simple.
His attitude had been right towards God. He had been faithful to YHWH...
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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...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O LORD, my strength._
What a blessed «I will»: «I will love thee»! He does love the
Lord, and he declares that he will continue to do so. He feels that he
must do so,...
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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...
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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...
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_The Lord reward me according to my righteousness._
OF THE JUSTICE OF DAVID’S BEHAVIOUR
I. David’s righteousness. Righteousness consists in rendering to all
their due, and the revealed will of God is...
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_I was also upright before Him, and kept myself from mine iniquity._
THE UPRIGHT HEART, AND ITS DARLING SIN
Things that David here takes notice of.
1. The greatness of the danger he was in.
2. The...
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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....
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 18:20 David claims that he has faithfully KEPT
THE WAYS OF THE LORD (v. Psalms 18:21), and thus God has...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Samuel 26:23; Matthew 18:8; Matthew 18:9;...