Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 18:29
By thee I have broken through the armed troops of mine enemies. I have sealed the walls of their strongest cities and castles, and so taken them.
By thee I have broken through the armed troops of mine enemies. I have sealed the walls of their strongest cities and castles, and so taken them.
Verse Psalms 18:29. _I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP_] This may relate to some remarkable victory, and the taking of some fortified place, possibly _Zion_, from the Jebusites. See the account 2 Samuel 5:6....
FOR BY THEE I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP - Margin, broken. The word troop here refers to bands of soldiers, or hosts of enemies. The word rendered run through means properly to run; and then, as here, t...
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...
RUN. broken through....
FOR BY THEE I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP, &C.— David mentions this as one instance of God's _lighting up his lamp;_ or his purpose to advance him to the greatest splendours of royal majesty: his beating...
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...
This v. may refer to the pursuit of the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30) and the capture of Jerusalem (2 Samuel 5:6)....
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...
Better with the verbs in the present — “For by thee I scatter a troop, By thee I scale walls.” A graphic reminiscence of warlike exploits. Some, however, read from Samuel “break down,” instead of “l...
_[Psalms 18:30]_ כִּֽי ־בְ֭ךָ אָרֻ֣ץ גְּד֑וּד וּ֝...
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...
For by thee I have (x) run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. (x) He attributes it to God that he both got the victory in the field and also destroyed the cities of his enemies...
All these verses become doubly precious and blessed to the people of Christ, from their personal concern in all that is his. The promise of Jehovah is to the seed of Christ, in Christ as well as to Ch...
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 BY THEE I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP,.... Or, "I have run to a troop": to meet one f with courage and intrepidity, as some interpret it g; or, as others h, "I have run after a troop": that is, pursu...
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. Ver. 29. _For by thee have I run through a troop_] Though but a little man, yet by God's help he achieved great matter...
_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...
A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE AND VICTORY. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical service of the Tabernacle and the Temple, a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, His p...
For by Thee I have run through a troop, rushing upon hostile bands and overthrowing them; AND BY MY GOD HAVE I LEAPED OVER A WALL, capturing the fortified towns of the enemies with ease. In the same m...
RUN THROUGH: Or, broken...
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...
Psalms 18:29 against H7323 (H8799) troop H1416 God H430 over H1801 (H8762) wall H7791 by thee -...
INDEED IT IS THROUGH GOD THAT WE WILL TRIUMPH (PSALMS 18:28). ‘For you will light my lamp, YHWH my God will lighten my darkness. For by you I run on a troop, And by my God do I leap over a wall. H...
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...
_By Thee have I run through a troop._ SURMOUNTING IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTIES This is a poetical way of representing the fact that impossibilities have often been made possible in our own experience. Loo...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 23:2; 1 Samuel 30:8;...
Troop — Broken through the armed troops of mine enemies. Wall — I have scaled the walls of their strongest cites....