Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 18:22
For all His judgments were before me, the obligations which His commandments laid upon all men, and I did not put away His statutes from me, namely, all the precepts of His covenant.
For all His judgments were before me, the obligations which His commandments laid upon all men, and I did not put away His statutes from me, namely, all the precepts of His covenant.
Verse Psalms 18:22. _ALL HIS JUDGMENTS_ WERE _BEFORE ME_] I kept his law before my eyes, that I might see my duty and know how to walk and please God....
FOR ALL HIS JUDGMENTS - All his statutes, ordinances, laws. The word judgment is commonly used in this sense in the Scriptures, as referring to that which God has judged or determined to be right. WE...
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...
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 ALL HIS JUDGMENTS WERE BEFORE ME, AND I DID NOT PUT AWAY HIS STATUTES FROM ME._ For all his judgments were before me. So long as one keeps these before his eyes, he is safe from utter apostasy ...
18:22 ordinances (c-4) Or 'judgments.'...
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...
(20-23) for this protestation of innocence comp. Psalms 7:17 and Job, _passim._ Self-righteous pride and vindication of one’s character under calumny are very different things. If taken of the nation...
_[Psalms 18:23]_ כִּ֣י כָל ־מִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו לְ נֶגְדִּ֑י...
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...
For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his (r) statutes from me. (r) For all his dangers he exercised himself in the law of God....
If there was no other passage in this Psalm to imply that David delivered this song of praise under the spirit of prophecy, in reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, than what these verses contain, what...
22._For all his judgments were before me. _He now shows how he came to possess that unbending rectitude of character, by which he was enabled to act uprightly amidst so many and so grievous temptation...
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 ALL HIS JUDGMENTS [WERE] BEFORE ME,.... That is, the precepts of the law of God, which David had a respect unto, loved, took delight and pleasure in, and so had them all in his sight, and made the...
For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. Ver. 22. _For all his judgments were before me_] Mine obedience (in desire and endeavour at least) was universal,...
_The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness_ “Commentators have been much perplexed,” says Dr. Horne, “to account for these unlimited claims to righteousness made by David, and that long after...
20-28 Those that forsake the ways of the Lord, depart from their God. But though conscious to ourselves of many a false step, let there not be a wicked departure from our God. David kept his eye upon...
BEFORE ME, i.e. before the eyes of my mind; I diligently studied and considered them, that I might govern my whole life by them. FROM ME, i.e. out of my view, as ungodly men do; who like not to retain...
Psalms 18:22 judgments H4941 away H5493 (H8686) statutes H2708 For all - Psalms 119:13,...
DAVID'S GIVES THE EXPLANATION FOR HIS TRIUMPH (PSALMS 18:20). David's explanation for YHWH's intervention on his behalf is simple. His attitude had been right towards God. He had been faithful to YHWH...
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...
_The Lord reward me according to my righteousness._ OF THE JUSTICE OF DAVID’S BEHAVIOUR I. David’s righteousness. Righteousness consists in rendering to all their due, and the revealed will of God is...
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 18:20 David claims that he has faithfully KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD (v. Psalms 18:21), and thus God has...
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...
John 5:14; Psalms 119:112; Psalms 119:117; Psalms 119:128;...
Judgments — I diligently studied and considered them....