Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 18:21
Verse Psalms 18:21. I have kept the ways of the Lord] I was neither an infidel nor a profligate; I trusted in God, and carefully observed all the ordinances of his religion.
Verse Psalms 18:21. I have kept the ways of the Lord] I was neither an infidel nor a profligate; I trusted in God, and carefully observed all the ordinances of his religion.
FOR I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD - I have obeyed his laws. I have not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a gu...
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...
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 I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT WICKEDLY DEPARTED FROM MY GOD._ For I ... have not wickedly departed from my God - literally, 'I was not evil from my God.' All wickedness is vile...
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 18:22]_ כִּֽי ־שָׁ֭מַרְתִּי דַּרְכֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְ...
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...
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...
21._For I have kept the ways of Jehovah. _He had spoken in the preceding verse of the cleanness of his hands, but finding that men judged of him perversely, and were very active in spreading evil repo...
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 I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD,.... Not those which the Lord himself walks in, his ways of providence, or of grace; though these are and should be taken notice of and observed by good men, as th...
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. Ver. 21. _For I have kept the ways of the Lord_] For the main, and for the most part, though not without some particu...
_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...
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, closely followed the paths pointed out to him by Jehovah, AND HAVE NOT WICKEDLY DEPARTED FROM MY GOD....
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...
I have observed and obeyed his precepts, and made mine own will, and passions, and interest stoop to them. And I have not knowingly and wilfully forsaken God, and broken his laws, as wicked men do; wh...
Psalms 18:21 kept H8104 (H8804) ways H1870 LORD H3068 departed H7561 (H8804) God H430 For I -...
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,...
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 John 2:19; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 24:16;...