Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 18:19
Verse Psalms 18:19. He brought me forth also into a large place] He enabled me to clear the country of my foes, who had before cooped me up in holes and corners. This appears to be the allusion.
Verse Psalms 18:19. He brought me forth also into a large place] He enabled me to clear the country of my foes, who had before cooped me up in holes and corners. This appears to be the allusion.
HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE - Instead of being hemmed in by enemies, and straitened in my troubles, so that I seemed to have no room to move, he brought me into a place where I had amp...
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...
BECAUSE, &C. This is the one ground of blessing. See note on Numbers 14:8, and 2 Samuel 15:25; 2 Samuel 15:26....
HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE— The Psalmist expresses himself much in the same manner, but with an addition which explains the nature of the phrase, Psalms 31:8. _Thou hast not shut me u...
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...
_HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE; HE DELIVERED ME, BECAUSE HE DELIGHTED IN ME._ He delivered me, because he delighted in me - on the ground of the righteousness in me, which forms the sub...
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...
A LARGE PLACE] the opposite of 'straits.' 24-26. David finds in his own case an illustration of the truth that God deals with all men according to their works, opposing those who oppose Him, as well...
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...
A LARGE PLACE. — Comp. Psalms 4:1. But there is direct historical allusion to the settlement of Israel in Canaan, as will be seen by a comparison of the Hebrew with Exodus 3:8, and Numbers 14:8....
_[Psalms 18:20]_ וַ יֹּוצִיאֵ֥נִי לַ † מֶּרְחָ֑ב...
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...
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...
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...
He brought me forth also into a large place; (p) he delivered me, because he delighted in me. (p) The cause of God's deliverance is his favour and love for us....
Oh! how very precious are these expressions, read with an eye to Christ. The predictions of the Prophets of the Old Testament Scripture, from the Spirit of Christ which was in them, were all directed...
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...
HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE,.... Into heaven, a place of the glorious liberty of Christ, after his captivity to death and the grave, whither he ascended leading captivity captive, and...
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. Ver. 19. _He brought me forth also, &c._] He freed me out of all straits, and stated me in a most happy condi...
_He brought me forth also_ Out of my straits and difficulties; out of the little caves in which I was shut up and imprisoned; _into a large place_ Into a state of freedom, and plenty, and comfort. Dav...
He brought me forth also, from all his straits of trouble, INTO A LARGE PLACE, to full safety and relief; HE DELIVERED ME BECAUSE HE DELIGHTED IN ME, His regard for David being His motive for acting a...
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...
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...
HE BROUGHT ME FORTH out of my straits and difficulties, out of the little caves in which I was shut up and imprisoned. INTO A LARGE PLACE; into a state of freedom, and plenty, and comfort. BECAUSE HE...
Psalms 18:19 out H3318 (H8686) place H4800 delivered H2502 (H8762) delighted H2654 (H8804) brought -...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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 18:7 God in his heavenly fortress suddenly takes notice of David’s need and quickly comes to his aid. ⇐...
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 Kings 10:9; 2 Samuel 22:18; Job 36:16; Psalms 37:23; Psalms 118:5
Brought — Out of my straits and difficulties, into a state of freedom and comfort. So he ascribes all his mercies to God's good pleasure, as the first spring of them....