Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
2 Samuel 22:33
God is my strength and power. — Better, my strong fortress. The psalm has quite a different thought, which is expressed in 2 Samuel 22:40, “It is God that girdeth me with strength.”
God is my strength and power. — Better, my strong fortress. The psalm has quite a different thought, which is expressed in 2 Samuel 22:40, “It is God that girdeth me with strength.”
2. DAVID'S SONG OF DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (2 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. The sorrows of the past (2 Samuel 22:5) 3. God's presence and intervention (2 Samuel 22:8) 4. R
1 SAMUEL 22. PSALMS 18. This poem is dealt with in the commentary on the Psalms (Psalms book comments, and Psalms 18 chapter comments.)....
STRENGTH. fortress. POWER. strength. MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT: or, showeth to the blameless His way. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "my way", as in Psalms 18:32....
_my strength_and _power_ Rather, MY STRONG FORTRESS. Psalms 18:32 reads "who girdeth me with strength:" cp. 2 Samuel 22:40. _maketh my way perfect Maketh_is a different word from that similarly transl...
The praise of Jehovah the giver of victory 32. FOR WHO IS A STRONG GOD (_El_) SAVE JEHOVAH? and who is a rock, save our God (_Elôhîm_)? Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 7:22; Deuteronomy 32:31; 1 Samu
AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD—THIS SONG— As this fine poem of David's occurs in the book of Psalms, we shall not make any remark upon it till we come to its proper place. See Psalms 18....
_The Lord's Victory._ 2 Samuel 22:32-51 32 For who _is_ God, save the Lord? and who _is_ a rock, save our God? 33 God _is_ my strength _and_ power; and he maketh my way perfect. 34 He maketh m...
_GOD IS MY STRENGTH AND POWER: AND HE MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT._ God is my strength and power; and he maketh my way perfect - in the midst of all my weaknesses and errors, He enables me, by His grace, t...
22:33 smooth. (c-12) Some read, as in Psalms 18:32 , 'maketh my way perfect.'...
DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PSALM This beautiful poem has also been preserved as the Eighteenth Psalm. It probably belongs to the earlier portion of David's reign, when his conquests and God's promise (2 Sa...
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID PRAISES THE *LORD V1 The *Lord had saved David from Saul and all his other enemies. So David sang this song to the *Lord....
הָ אֵ֥ל מָעוּזִּ֖י חָ֑יִל וַ יַּתֵּ֥ר תָּמִ֖י
CHAPTER XXX. THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING. 2 Samuel 22:1. SOME of David's actions are very characteristic of himself; there are other actions quite out of harmony with his character. This psalm of thank...
The character of David is revealed in the two psalms recorded here. In the first of these, found in this chapter, we find the deepest things concerning him. It may be well to note its main divisions,...
(31) As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. (32) For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? (33) God is my s...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. The songs that follow contain instruction of deep interest. In chapter 22 David comes forth from his sufferings and his affliction with a song of t...
GOD [IS] MY STRENGTH [AND] POWER: AND HE MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT. Psalms 18:32....
A Psalme of thankesgiuing for Gods powerfull deliuerance, and manifold blessings. 1 AND Dauid spake vnto the LORD the wordes of this song, in the day that the LORD had deliuered him out of the hand o...
God is my strength and Power, a Fortress of strength; AND HE MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT, leading and guiding the perfect man on his way....
PRAISE AND PROPHECY...
This chapter presents David's song of triumph after God had subdued all his enemies under him. It is almost identical toPsalms 18:1, though with some variations. Of course faith realizes that God has...
MAKETH: _ Heb._ riddeth, or, looseth...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Samuel 22:33 God H410 strength H4581 power H2428 makes H5425 (H8686) way H1870 perfect H8549 strength -...
CONTENTS: David's song of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: No believer has so little from God but there is ground for praise, nor so much but that he has need to call upon God. Prais...
2 Samuel 22:25. _The Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness._ True indeed: but says St. Paul, the reward is not reckoned of debt, but of grace. See on Psalms 18:24....
_David spake unto the Lord the word of this song._ THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING Some of David’s actions are very characteristic of himself; there are other actions quite out of harmony with his character...
_He maketh my way perfect._ THE PERFECT WAY INDICATED A gentleman crossing the English Channel stood near the helmsman. It was a calm and pleasant evening, and no one dreamed of a possible danger to...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 22:1__ David’s song recorded in this chapter is almost identical with Psalms 18:1, where it was adapted to serve as a public hymn....
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES 2 Samuel 22:29. “LAMP.” “While _light_ is always the symbol of good fortune and well-being (Job 18:5), the burning lamp denotes the source of lasting happiness and joyfu...
EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, t...
In chapter twenty-two we have David's song of deliverance. Here is a psalm that is not in the Psalms, but it is here in second Samuel, and it is like the Psalms. It is one of David's psalms of God's d...
2 Corinthians 12:9; Deuteronomy 18:13; Ephesians 6:10; Exodus 15:2;...