2 Samuel 22:36
the shield.Ge 15:1; Ps 84:11; Eph 6:16gentleness.Ps 18:35made me great. Heb. multiplied me.Ge 12:2; 22:17; Ps 115:14Psalms 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 45:24teacheth.18:34; 44:3,4; 60:12; 2Sa 22:35; 2Co 10:4; Eph 6:10,11to war. or, to the war, etc.Isaiah 28:6
for a spirit.11:2-4; 32:15,16; Ge 41:38,39; Nu 11:16,17; 27:16-18; 1Ki 3:28Ps 72:1-4; Pr 20:8; Joh 3:34; 5:30; 1Co 12:8and for strength.De 20:4; Jos 1:9; Ps 18:32-34; 46:1,11Isaiah 45:1
1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power. to his.13:3; 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6whose.41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23holden. or, strengthened.Eze 30:21-24to subdue.41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king. Na 2:6
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