Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 18:12
At — His glorious and powerful appearance. Passed — Or, passed away, vanished, being dissolved into showers.
At — His glorious and powerful appearance. Passed — Or, passed away, vanished, being dissolved into showers.
Verse Psalms 18:12. _AT THE BRIGHTNESS_ THAT WAS _BEFORE HIM HIS THICK CLOUDS_ _PASSED_] The word נגה _nogah_ signifies the _lightning_. This _goes before him_: the _flash_ is seen before the _thunde...
AT THE BRIGHTNESS THAT WAS BEFORE HIM - From the flash - the play of the lightnings that seemed to go before him. HIS THICK CLOUDS PASSED - or, vanished. They seemed to pass away. The light, the flash...
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...
Forthwith David's prayer is answered by the Advent of Jehovah for the discomfiture of his enemies. He manifests Himself in earthquake and storm. The majestic though terrible phenomena of nature are th...
The best rendering of this obscure verse seems to be: From the brightness before him there passed through his thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire. The flashes of lightning, accompanied by hail...
AT THE BRIGHTNESS THAT WAS BEFORE HIM— _At his lightning his clouds swelled, and burst out into hailstones and coals of fire._ Schultens, Chandler, &c. The meaning is, that at the brightness or lightn...
THEN THE EARTH SHOOK, &C.— In this, and the eight following verses, David describes, by the sublimest expressions and grandest terms, the majesty of God, and the awful manner in which he came to his a...
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...
_AT THE BRIGHTNESS THAT WAS BEFORE HIM HIS THICK CLOUDS PASSED, HAIL STONES AND COALS OF FIRE._ At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed - i:e., these were dissipated on every si...
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...
Read, 'From the brightness before him there passed through his thick cloud hailstones and coals of fire.' COALS OF FIRE] lightning....
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...
AT THE BRIGHTNESS. — This is obscure. Literally, _From the brightness before him his clouds passed through_ (Heb., _avar_ — LXX., διῆλθον; Vulg., _transierunt_)_ hail and fiery coals._ In Samuel it is...
_[Psalms 18:13]_ מִ נֹּ֗גַהּ נֶ֫גְדֹּ֥ו עָבָ֥יו עָבְר֑וּ...
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. I speak from experience. (Calmet) --- If I had no other inducement, I would observe this law for the consolation, (Haydock) and repeated advantages which I have derived from it. (Theodoret) --- T...
Is here not (for I do not presume to decide) an allusion to the descent of the Holy Ghost, after the return of Jesus to glory? And may we not without violence to the several expressions here set forth...
12._At the brightness, etc. _The Psalmist again returns to the lightnings which, by dividing and as it were cleaving the clouds, lay open the heaven; and, therefore, he says, that the clouds of God (t...
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...
AT THE BRIGHTNESS [THAT WAS] BEFORE HIM, The lightning that came out of the thick clouds; which may denote, either the coming of Christ to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which was swift and sudd...
At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire. Ver. 12. _At the brightness that was before him, &c._] _i.e._ At his bright presence, his thick cloud...
_At the brightness that was before him_, &c. Schultens, Waterland, and some others, translate this verse, _At his lightning, his clouds swelled and burst out into hail-stones and balls of fire._ The m...
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...
At the brightness that was before Him, out from the brightness which surrounded His throne, HIS THICK CLOUDS PASSED HAILSTONES AND COALS OF FIRE, for Jehovah discharged through the clouds that veiled...
1-19 The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence...
At his glorious and powerful appearance HIS THICK CLOUDS PASSED AWAY, i.e. vanished, (as this word is oft taken, as PSALMS 90:5,6 ISA 29:5 HABAKKUK 3:10) being dissolved into showers of hail-stones, &...
Psalms 18:12 brightness H5051 clouds H5645 passed H5674 (H8804) hailstones H1259 coals H1513 fire H784 At the -...
GOD HAD INTERVENED ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 18:7). David's description of God's intervention portrays the situation from Heaven's point of view. Little was necessarily seen on earth, but David was aware...
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,...
Psalms 18:1. _To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,...
Psalms 18:1. _I will love thee, O Lord, my strength._ «I do love thee, and I will love thee yet more and more. I bind myself to thee for the future as well as the present.» Psalms 18:2. The LORD is...
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...
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 18:7 God in his heavenly fortress suddenly takes notice of David’s need and quickly comes to his aid. ⇐...
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 22:13; Exodus 9:23; Exodus 9:24; Habakkuk 3:4; Habakkuk 3:5;...