Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 18:36
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, giving him plenty of room for his feet, that my feet did not slip, being able to walk with a firm step, without limping.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, giving him plenty of room for his feet, that my feet did not slip, being able to walk with a firm step, without limping.
Verse Psalms 18:36. _ENLARGED MY STEPS_] See on Psalms 18:19. From the hand of God he had continual prosperity; and while he walked with God no enemy was able to prevail against him. He details his su...
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS UNDER ME - The idea here is, “Thou hast made room for my feet, so that I have been enabled to walk without hindrance or obstruction. So in Psalms 31:8, “Thou hast set my fe...
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...
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS UNDER ME— See the note on Psalms 18:18. "Thou hast brought me out of my distresses; given me great prosperity:" _and my feet do not slip: i.e._ my happiness continues unmov...
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...
ENLARGED MY STEPS] given me freedom to move without obstruction....
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...
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS. — Comp. Psalms 31:8, which explains the phrase; also Psalms 18:19 above....
_[Psalms 18:37]_ תַּרְחִ֣יב צַעֲדִ֣י תַחְתָּ֑י וְ לֹ֥א...
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...
These are all glorious triumphs of our risen and exalted Saviour. And He who hath thus conquered for us, can and will conquer sin in us. Like another Joshua, our Almighty Leader and Commander, which J...
_By the enlargement of his steps, _he intimates that God had opened up to him an even and an accommodating pathway through places to which there was before no means of access; for there is in the word...
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...
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS UNDER ME,.... Which is opposed to those straitened circumstances in which the psalmist was, Psalms 18:4; and is expressive of deliverance from his enemies, by whom he was s...
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. Ver. 36. _Thou hast enlarged my steps under me_] Or, Thou hast widened my passage, and made room for me; when the wicked man's strong...
_Thou hast enlarged my steps_ Which before were confined within narrow limits, and entangled with the straitness and difficulty of the way. _Thou hast set my feet in a large room, Psalms 31:8_; Psalms...
MY FEET: _ Heb._ mine ankles...
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...
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS; which before were straitened and confined to a little compass, and entangled with the narrowness and difficulty of the way. _Thou hast set my feet in a large room_, PSALMS...
Psalms 18:36 enlarged H7337 (H8686) path H6806 feet H7166 slip H4571 (H8804) enlarged - Psalms 4:
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...
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...
_Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip._ THE DOUBLE BLESSING OF ENLARGEMENT AND SAFETY A smooth pathway leading to spacious possessions and camping grounds had been opened f...
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...
2 Samuel 22:37; Job 18:7; Job 36:16; Luke 12:50; Luke 24:46;...
Slipt — As they are apt to do in narrow and uneven ways....