2 Samuel 23:2

_THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPAKE BY ME, AND HIS WORD WAS IN MY TONGUE._ The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, х_ DIBER_ (H1696) _ BIY_ (H871a)] - speaketh in me; referring, not to his general inspiration only, but to the revelation which immediately follows. AND HIS WORD WAS IN MY TONGUE, х_ UWMILAATOW_ (H4405), His word]. Millah is an exclusively poetic term (Job 6:26; Job 33:32; Job 36:2; Psalms 19:5; Psalms 106:2;...

1-7 These words of David are very worthy of regard. Let those who have had long experience of God's goodness, and the pleasantness of heavenly wisdom, when they come to finish their course, bear their testimony to the truth of the promise. David avows his Divine inspiration, that the Spirit of God spake by him. He, and other holy men, spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In many things he had his own neglect and wrong conduct to blame. But David comforted himself that the Lord had made with him an everlasting covenant. By this he principally intended the covenant of mercy and peace, which the Lord made with him as a sinner, who believed in the promised Saviour, who embraced the promised blessing, who yielded up himself to the Lord, to be his redeemed servant. Believers shall for ever enjoy covenant blessings; and God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, shall be for ever gl...

Verse 2 Samuel 23:2. _THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPAKE BY ME_] Hence the matter of his writing came by direct and immediate inspiration. _HIS WORD_ WAS _IN MY TONGUE._] Hence the _words_ of this writing were as directly inspired as the _matter_....

EXPOSITION 2 SAMUEL 23:1 NOW THESE BE THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. A long interval separates this psalm from the preceding. The one was written when David had just reached the zenith of his power, and, when still unstained by foul crime, he could claim God's favour as due to his innocence. These last words were David's latest inspired utterance, written, probably, towards the end of the calm period which followed upon his restoration to his throne, and when time and the sense of God's renewed favour had healed the wounds of his soul. DAVID THE SON OF JESSE SAID. It was probably this account of the author, and its personal character, which caused the exclusion of this hymn from the Book of Psalms. It seemed to belong rather to David's private history than to a collection made for use in the public services of the temple....

THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPAKE BY ME,.... The psalms and songs he composed were not the fruits of his own genius, but were written by him under the inspiration of the Spirit of God; by whom holy men of God, the penmen of the Scriptures, spoke, even as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, of whom David was one, being a prophet; see Acts 1:16 Acts 2:30; so the Targum here, "David spoke by the spirit of prophecy of the Lord:'' or spake "in me" h; what he spoke was first internally impressed upon his mind by the Spirit of God, and then he expressed it with his tongue, as follows: AND HIS WORD [WAS] IN MY TONGUE; not only the matter of his psalms was indited by the Spirit of God, and suggested to his mind; but the very words in which they are delivered were given to him, and he was di

3. THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID AND THE RECORD OF THE MIGHTY MEN CHAPTER 23 _ 1. His last words (2 Samuel 23:1)_ 2. The names and records of David's mighty men (2 Samuel 23:8) In his last words an even greater and clearer vision is given to King David. “If Psalms 18 was a grand Hallelujah, with which David quitted the scene of life, these ‘his last words' are the divine attestation of all that he had sung and prophesied in the Psalms concerning the spiritual import of the kingdom which he was to found in accordance with the divine message that Nathan had been commissioned to bring to him. Hence these ‘last words' must be regarded as an inspired prophetic utterance by David, before his death, about th

THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID (_cf._ above). This poem is generally held to be a late production and not composed by David. Saith (twice) in 1 Samuel 23:1, is the solemn _ne-' um,_ oracle (Numbers 24:3). Instead of sweet psalmist of Israel, render him whom Israel delights to praise (_cf._ RVm). 2 Samuel 23:4 should run: He shall dawn like the light of morning, Like the sun on a morning without clouds. The text and translation of the last line, and of 2 Samuel 23:5, are uncertain; there is no agreement amongst scholars as to how they are to be restored, so t

SPIRIT. _ruach_. App-9. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. SPAKE: referring to the _substance_ of the Divine revelation. Hebrew. _dabar. to_ utter. See App-73. WORD. Hebrew. _millah._ Used of. royal or divine decree (Psalms 19:14.Daniel 3:22; Daniel 3:28, &c.)...

2 Samuel 23:1-7. The last words of David The great hymn of triumph in ch. 22, composed when David was in the zenith of his prosperity, is followed by his "last words:" his last prophetic utterance, delivered not long before his death, a parting testimony to the world of his confidence in the fulfilment of the promise concerning the eternal dominion of his posterity. A translation of the Targum or Aramaic paraphrase of David's last words is given in Note IV., p. 237....

DISCOURSE: 325 THE EQUITY OF CHRIST’S GOVERNMENT 2 Samuel 23:1. _Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet Psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain_. THESE words are generally understood as descriptive of the duty of civil governors, and of the happiness of any people who live under a government that is thus administered. But they have doubtless a further reference, even to Christ himself, whose character they designate