Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 18:20
Righteousness — Just cause. The innocency of my actions towards Saul, from whose blood I kept my hands pure.
Righteousness — Just cause. The innocency of my actions towards Saul, from whose blood I kept my hands pure.
Verse Psalms 18:20. _THE LORD REWARDED ME_] David proceeds to give the reasons why God had so marvellously interposed in his behalf. _ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Instead of being an enemy to Saul...
THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS - That is, he saw that I did not deserve the treatment which I received from my enemies, and therefore he interposed to save me. Compare the note at...
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...
THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS— In this and the five following verses, David declares his own integrity, and that he had not departed from, but conscientiously observed, the precep...
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...
_THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS; ACCORDING TO THE CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS HATH HE RECOMPENSED ME._ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteouness. It was from no arbitrary favour...
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 18:21]_ יִגְמְלֵ֣נִי יְהוָ֣ה כְּ צִדְקִ֑י כְּ...
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...
The LORD rewarded me according to my (q) righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. (q) David was sure of his righteous cause and good behaviour toward Saul and his...
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...
20._Jehovah rewarded me. _David might seem at first sight to contradict himself; for, while a little before he declared that all the blessings which he possessed were to be traced to the good pleasure...
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...
THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Which, if applied to David, cannot be understood of his own personal righteousness, or of works of righteousness done by him, for these merit no...
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. Ver. 20. _The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness_] viz. The righteousnes...
_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...
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...
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, the evidence of which came out in his entire conduct and life; ACCORDING TO THE CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS, in the management of his personal and officia...
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...
As I had a just cause, and made it my care and business to deal righteously with God, and with Saul, and all others; so God (who hath engaged himself by his promise to suceour and reward them that are...
Psalms 18:20 LORD H3068 rewarded H1580 (H8799) righteousness H6664 cleanness H1252 hands H3027 recompensed H7725 (H8686
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,...
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,...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:8; 1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Samuel 24:20;...