Psalms 18:23
What meaning of the psalms 18:23 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 18:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity."
What does Psalms 18:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity."
Verse Psalms 18:23. _I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT_] The times in which David was most afflicted were the times of his greatest uprightness. _Adversity_ was always to him a time of spiritual prosperity. _MINE I...
I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM - Margin, with. The meaning is that he was upright in his sight. The word rendered upright is the same which in Job 1:1 is rendered perfect. See the note at that passage....
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 (Psalms 18:19) 4. His enemies...
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...
BEFORE. with. MINE INIQUITY. Some codices read "the wicked". Hebrew " _avah_. App-44....
DISCOURSE: 517 BESETTING SINS Psalms 18:23. _I kept myself from mine iniquity._ NOTHING is a richer source of comfort to any man than the testimony of his own conscience that he has acted right: for,...
I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY— The affix י _jod, my_ to the noun עון _avon_ may probably be merely supplemental, and not point out any particular sin to which David was especially inclined. The Cha...
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...
_I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY._ I was also upright before him - literally, with Him (Genesis 17:1; Deuteronomy 18:13). See God's own testimony to David (1 Kings...
18:23 upright (d-4) Or 'perfect.' as Genesis 6:9 ; Job 1:1 ; Job 4:6 ....
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 18:24]_ וָ אֱהִ֣י תָמִ֣ים עִמֹּ֑ו וָ֝ אֶשְׁתַּמֵּ֗ר מֵ עֲוֹנִֽי׃...
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 ima...
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 Psalms 18:49 are applied in the New Testament to the Lord Jesus, Hebrews 2:13...
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...
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine (f) iniquity. (f) I neither gave place to their wicked temptations nor to my own desires....
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...
23._I was also upright with him. _All the verbs in this verse are put by David in the future tense, _I will be upright, etc. _because he does not boast of one act only, or of a good work performed by...
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...
I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM,.... In heart and conversation, being sincere and faithful; so David was in the sight of God; but this is much more true of Christ, in whom there was no unrighteousness n...
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ver. 23. _I was also upright before him_] This he had because he kept God's commandments, as Psalms 18:22, had respect to them all...
_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...
BEFORE HIM: _ Heb._ with...
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 did not pretend religion before men for my own ends, but did approve my heart and ways to the all-seeing God. AND I KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY, i e. from that sin which I was most inclined or te...
Psalms 18:23 blameless H8549 kept H8104 (H8691) iniquity H5771 upright - Psalms 7:1 - Psalms 8:9, Psalms 11:7, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 37:27; 1 Samuel 26:23;...
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 YHW...
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...
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 comment...
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 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Samuel 26:23; Matthew 18:8; Matthew 18:9; Matthew 5:29; Matthew 5:30; Psalms 7:1...