Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 18:34
To him I owe all that military skill, or strength, or cou rage which I have. My strength is sufficient, not only to bend a bow of steel, but to break it.
To him I owe all that military skill, or strength, or cou rage which I have. My strength is sufficient, not only to bend a bow of steel, but to break it.
Verse Psalms 18:34. _HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR_] The success which I have had in my military exercises I owe to the Divine help. How few of the conquerors of mankind can say so! And how few among t...
HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR - Compare Psalms 144:1. The skill which David had in the use of the bow, the sword, or the spear - all of which depends on the hands - he ascribes entirely to God. SO THAT...
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...
BROKEN. bent....
A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN BY MINE ARMS— _My arms have bent the bow of steel._ Chandler. _He makes my arms to be like a brazen bow._ Houbigant and Mudge: but Dr. Chandler's rendering is more agreeable t...
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...
18:34 bend (c-10) Others read 'break.'...
A BOW OF STEEL, etc.] RV 'mine arms do bend a bow of brass' (i.e. copper or bronze), a harder task than to bend a wooden bow....
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...
SO THAT A BOW. — Better, _and mine arms bend a bow of copper._ For the _copper bow_ comp. Job 20:24. _Nechushah,_ χαλκὸς, is certainly not _steel,_ whether the custom of hardening iron was known to th...
_[Psalms 18:35]_ מְלַמֵּ֣ד יָ֭דַי לַ † מִּלְחָמָ֑ה...
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...
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...
HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR,.... From whence it appears, that war, in some cases, is lawful; and that all the skilfulness and art in training men for war, in the use of armour, in marshalling of armie...
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Ver. 34. _He teacheth mine hands to war_] David ascribeth all his military skill and success to God; so did not other great...
_He teacheth my hands to war_ To him I owe all the military skill, or strength, or courage which I have. _A bow of steel is broken by mine arm_ Chandler renders it, _Mine arms have bent the bow of ste...
GIVING ALL GLORY TO GOD ALONE...
He teacheth my hands to war, his skill in battle being a gift of the Lord, SO THAT A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN BY MINE ARMS, rather, his arms bending the bow of brass or tempered bronze, a feat which too...
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 18:34 teaches H3925 (H8764) hands H3027 war H4421 arms H2220 bend H5181 (H8765) bow H7198 bronze...
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...
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...
_He teacheth my hands to war._ DIVINE ENDOWMENT FOR SERVICE God raises up men specially qualified to meet the exigencies of human society--the soldier, the statesman, the lawgiver, the teacher of rel...
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 22:36; Hosea 1:5; Isaiah 28:6; Isaiah 45:1; Jeremiah 49:35;...