2 Samuel 22:29

_FOR THOU ART MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS._ For thou art my lamp, O Lord. The light of a lamp was an image in common use among the Hebrews for prosperity; while its extinction betokened calamity (Esther 8:16; Job 18:5; Job 21:17; Job 29:3; Psalms 97:11; Psalms 132:17; Proverbs 24:20). But х_ NEEYRIY_ (H5216)] th

EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, that the objections taken by one or two critics serve only to give us greater security by reminding us that the other side has been carefully argued. The differences between its form here and in the Book of Psalms suggest many important considerations with regard to textual criticism. From the absence of manuscripts, we have very scanty means of judging of the correctness of the ordinary Hebrew text. We have, indeed, abundant proof that the Jews took extreme care of their sacred text in the early centuries of our era; but we nevertheless find, most frequently in names, mistakes which have arisen from the care

FOR THOU [ART] MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS. Psalms 18:28....

2. DAVID'S SONG OF DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (2 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. The sorrows of the past (2 Samuel 22:5) 3. God's presence and intervention (2 Samuel 22:8) 4. Reward and approval (2 Samuel 22:21) 5. The judgment of the enemies (2 Samuel 22:29) 6. The exaltation above the adversaries (2 Samuel 22:44) 7. The praise of Jehovah ...

1 SAMUEL 22. PSALMS 18. This poem is dealt with in the commentary on the Psalms (Psalms book comments, and Psalms 18 chapter comments.)....

LAMP. light....

_For thou_, &c. _For_connects this verse closely with 2 Samuel 22:29, as the confirmation out of his own experience of the principles there enunciated. _my lamp_ Illuminating all his life with the light of prosperity, as the lamp illuminates the house. _Dominus illuminatio mea_was David's motto. Cp. Psalms 27:1; Psalms 132:17. With the different application of the figure in Psalms 18:28, "Thou wilt light my lamp," cp. 1 Kings 11:36; 1 Kings 15:4

AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD—THIS SONG— As this fine poem of David's occurs in the book of Psalms, we shall not make any remark upon it till we come to its proper place. See Psalms 18....

_The Lord's Rewards._ 2 Samuel 22:21-31 21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments _were_ before me: and _as for_ his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I Was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 25 Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eyesight. 26 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, _and_ with the upright man thou will show thyself upright. 27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the forward thou wilt show thyself unsavory. 2

DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PSALM This beautiful poem has also been preserved as the Eighteenth Psalm. It probably belongs to the earlier portion of David's reign, when his conquests and God's promise (2 Samuel 7) were still fresh in his mind. See on Psalms 18....