Num 24:18-19, Jos 1:9, 14:12, 2Sa 10:12, 1Ch 19:13, Psa 18:32-42, 144:1 | TSK

Be of good.This is a very animating address, and equal to any thing of the kind in ancient or modern times. Ye fight {pro aris et focis;} for every good, sacred and civil; for God, for your families, and for your countries. Such harangues, especially in very trying circumstances, are very natural, and may perhaps be found in the records of every nation. Several instances might be quoted from Roman and Grecian history; but few are more remarkable than that of Tyrtaeus, the lame Athenian poet, to whom the command of the army was given in one of the Messenian wars. The Spartans had at that time suffered great losses, and all their stratagems proved ineffectual, so that they began to despair of success; when the poet, by his lectures on honour and courage, delivered in moving verse to the army, ravished them to such a degree with the thoughts of dying for their country, that, rushing on with a furious transport to meet their enemies, they gave them an entire overthrow, and by one decisive battle brought the war to a happy conclusion.

Nu 13:20; De 31:6; Jos 1:6,7,9,18; 1Sa 14:6,12; 17:32; 2Ch 32:7

Ne 4:14; Heb 13:6

play.

1Sa 4:9; 1Ch 19:13; 1Co 16:13

the Lord.

16:10,11; Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; Job 1:21

1 Chronicles 19:13

of good.

De 31:6,7; Jos 1:7; 10:25; 1Sa 4:9; 14:6-12; 17:32; 2Sa 10:12

Ezr 10:4; Ne 4:14; Ps 27:14; 1Co 16:13

let us behave, etc.In Samuel, "let us play the men;" but the original is the same in both places, {nithchazzak}.

let the Lord.

Jud 10:15; 1Sa 3:18; 2Sa 15:26; 16:10,11; Job 1:22

Psalms 18:32-42

girdeth.The girdle was a necessary part of the eastern dress: It strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and to tuck them in when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to his body.

28:7; 91:2; 93:1; Isa 45:5; 2Co 3:5

maketh.

2Sa 22:33

maketh.

2Sa 2:18

high.

De 32:13; 33:29; 2Sa 22:14; Hab 3:19

teacheth.

144:1; 2Sa 22:36; Isa 28:6; 45:1

so that.

46:9; Jer 49:35; Ho 1:5

shield.

5:12; 28:7; De 33:29; 2Sa 22:36

right.

17:7; 45:3

gentleness. or, with thy meekness thou hast multiplied me.

45:4; Isa 40:11; 22:3; 2Co 10:1; Ga 5:22,23; Jas 3:17,18

enlarged.

4:1; Job 18:7; 36:16; Lu 12:50; 24:46-48

feet. Heb. ancles.

2Sa 22:37; Pr 4:12

3:7; 9:3; 35:2,5; 118:11,12; Nu 24:17-19; Isa 53:10-12; 63:1-6

Re 6:2; 19:19,20

1Sa 17:49-51; 23:5; 30:17; 2Sa 5:1-25; 8:1-18; 10:1-19; 18:7,8@ 2Sa 21:15-22 22:39

girded.

32; Eze 30:24,25

subdued. Heb. caused to bow.

66:3; 2Sa 22:40; 1Ch 22:18; Isa 45:14; 1Co 15:25-28; Eph 1:22

Php 3:21

necks.

La 5:5

that.

34:21; 2Sa 22:41; Pr 8:36; Joh 15:23

2Sa 22:42,43; Job 35:12,13; Pr 1:28; Isa 1:15; 59:1,2; Jer 11:11

Jer 14:12; Eze 8:18; Ho 7:14; Mic 3:4; Zec 7:13; Lu 13:25

beat.

50:22; 2Ki 13:7; Isa 41:2,15,16

cast.

Isa 10:6; 25:10; Zec 10:5; Mal 4:3

Psalms 144:1

1 David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man.

5 He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies.

9 He promises to praise God.

11 He prays for the happy state of the kingdom.

(Title.) A Psalm of David.Calmet and others think that this Psalm was composed by David after the death of Absalom; and from a collation of it with Ps 18, in which the same ideas and form of expression occur, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author.

my strength. Heb. my rock.

18:2,31; 71:3; 95:1; De 32:30,31; Isa 26:4; *marg:

Isa 45:24

teacheth.

18:34; 44:3,4; 60:12; 2Sa 22:35; 2Co 10:4; Eph 6:10,11

to war. or, to the war, etc.