-
FOR WHO IS GOD SAVE THE LORD? - Who is God except Yahweh? The idea is,
that no other being has evinced the power, the wisdom, and the
goodness which properly belong to the true God; or, that the thing...
-
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...
-
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.
ROCK. Hebrew. _zur._ See notes on Exodus 17:6; Exodus 32:13.
SAVE. except....
-
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...
-
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...
-
Comp. Deuteronomy 32:31, where we see that “rock” was a common
term among the tribes of Canaan for their divinities. Notice some
trifling variations in Samuel....
-
_[Psalms 18:32]_ כִּ֤י מִ֣י אֱ֭לֹוהַּ מִ
בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י...
-
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...
-
Reader, while we contemplate the Lord Jesus, as here celebrating the
ways and works of Jehovah in redemption, as altogether finished and
complete, it will be a sweet note in this song, if you and I ca...
-
31._For who is God besides Jehovah? _David here, deriding the foolish
inventions of men, who, according to their own fancy, make for
themselves tutelary gods, (426) confirms what I have said before, t...
-
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...
-
FOR WHO [IS] GOD SAVE THE LORD?.... Or Jehovah: there is but one God,
and Jehovah is he; there is none besides him, nor any like him: there
are many that are called gods, nominal deities, who are not...
-
For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
Ver. 31. _For who is God save the Lord?_] _Fictitios Deos et vanas
spes prosternit,_ saith Vatablus. Here he striketh down to the grou...
-
_Thou wilt light_, or, _thou dost light_, or, _hast lighted, my
candle_ That is, given me safety, and comfort, and glory, and
posterity also: all which particulars are often signified by a
_candle_, o...
-
GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...
-
For who is God save the Lord? Or who is a rock, a certain refuge and
concealment, SAVE OUR GOD? Jehovah alone is the true God, who can and
will help....
-
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...
-
It must needs be as I have said, because our Lord is the only God, and
therefore there is none, neither God nor creature, that can hinder him
from accomplishing his own word and work, or from defendin...
-
Psalms 18:31 God H433 except H1107 LORD H3068 rock H6697 except H2108
God H430
Psalms 86:8;...
-
DAVID GIVES A SUMMARY OF WHAT GOD IS AND OF ALL GOD'S BLESSINGS TO HIM
(PSALMS 18:30).
Psalms 18:30
‘As for God, his way is perfect,
The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true),
He is a shi...
-
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,...
-
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 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:32; Deuteronomy 32:31; Deuteronomy 32:39;...
-
Who — Our Lord is the only God, and therefore there is none, that
can hinder him from accomplishing his own work....