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YEA, HE SENT OUT HIS ARROWS - The word arrows here probably refers to
the lightnings mentioned in the other clause of the verse. Those
lightnings scattered around, and accomplishing such destruction,...
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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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Forthwith David's prayer is answered by the Advent of Jehovah for the
discomfiture of his enemies. He manifests Himself in earthquake and
storm. The majestic though terrible phenomena of nature are th...
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And he sent out &c. (R.V.) gives the connexion better than _Yea_.
Lightnings are Jehovah's arrows. Cp. Psalms 77:17; Habakkuk 3:11.
_Scattered them_clearly refers to the enemies whose destruction was...
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THEN THE EARTH SHOOK, &C.— In this, and the eight following verses,
David describes, by the sublimest expressions and grandest terms, the
majesty of God, and the awful manner in which he came to his
a...
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YEA, HE SENT OUT HIS ARROWS, AND SCATTERED THEM— _Yea, he sent out
his darts, and scorched them: he brandished his thunder-bolts, and
dissolved them; i.e. the heavens._ Schultens. Dr. Chandler approve...
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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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_YEA, HE SENT OUT HIS ARROWS, AND SCATTERED THEM; AND HE SHOT OUT
LIGHTNINGS, AND DISCOMFITED THEM._
And he shot out lightnings - rather, 'and much х_ RAAB_ (H7227)]
lightnings.' [Not from _ RAABAB_...
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18:14 enemies]; (a-9) Lit. 'and scattered them.' lightnings, (b-14) Or
'and many lightnings.'...
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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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HIS ARROWS] another figure for lightning....
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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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HE SENT OUT. — In the majesty of the storm we have almost forgotten
its cause, the Divine wrath against the enemies of the poet. They are
abruptly recalled to our remembrance in the suffix (“them”) of...
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_[Psalms 18:15]_ וַ יִּשְׁלַ֣ח חִ֭צָּיו וַ
יְפִיצֵ֑ם...
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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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Yea, he sent out (k) his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
(k) His lightening....
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Those, &c. Or "from strangers," alienis, whose company we cannot avoid
with too much caution. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "the proud." It is
conjectured (Berthier) that the Septuagint read r for d, in mizze...
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Is here not (for I do not presume to decide) an allusion to the
descent of the Holy Ghost, after the return of Jesus to glory? And may
we not without violence to the several expressions here set forth...
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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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YEA, HE SENT OUT HIS ARROWS,.... By which thunderbolts, cracks of
thunder, and flashes of lightning, seem to be meant; see
Psalms 77:17; comparable to arrows shot, and sent out of a bow; and
may deno...
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_Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them._
Ver. 14. _Yea, he sent out his arrows, &c._] _Tandem permiscentur
omnia grandine flammis et fulmin...
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_The Lord also thundered_, &c. The preceding verse mentioned the
lightning with its effects; this gives us the report of the thunder,
and the increasing storm of hail and fire that attended it. _Yea,...
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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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Yea, He sent out His arrows, the sharp points of His lightning, AND
SCATTERED THEM, the enemies being obliged to flee in all directions;
AND HE SHOT OUT LIGHTNINGS AND DISCOMFITED THEM, so that they w...
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1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are
the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may
triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...
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HIS ARROWS, to wit, _lightnings_, as it is explained in the next
clause. SCATTERED THEM, to wit, mine enemies; which is sufficiently
understood from PSALMS 18:3,17, and from the whole context....
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Psalms 18:14 out H7971 (H8799) arrows H2671 scattered H6327 (H8686)
Lightnings H1300 vanquished H2000 (H8799)...
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GOD HAD INTERVENED ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 18:7).
David's description of God's intervention portrays the situation from
Heaven's point of view. Little was necessarily seen on earth, but
David was aware...
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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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Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of
the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day
that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...
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Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._
«I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind
myself to thee for the future as well as the present.»
Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...
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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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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 18:7 God in his heavenly fortress suddenly
takes notice of David’s need and quickly comes to his aid.
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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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Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42; Habakkuk 3:11; Isaiah 30:30;...
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Arrows — Lightnings. Them — Mine enemies....