Deu 4:11, 2Ch 6:1-11, Psa 18:8-11, 97:2 | TSK | STEP

neither chose.The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.

1Sa 10:24; 13:13,14; 15:23; 2Sa 7:15,16

But I have chosen Jerusalem.This clause is also not found in Kings. Jerusalem was expressly marked out, by the building of the temple, to be the centre of the worship of Israel; as Jehovah had before spoken by Moses: see the parallel passages.

12:13; Ps 48:1; 78:68-70; 132:13; Isa 14:32

chosen David.

1Sa 16:1; 1Ch 28:4; Ps 89:19,20

2Sa 7:2,3; 1Ki 5:3; 8:17; 1Ch 17:1; 22:7; 28:2-4

thou didst well.

1Ki 8:18-21; Mr 14:8; 2Co 8:12

thy son.

2Sa 7:12,13; 1Ch 17:4,11,12

performed his word.

I am risen.

1:1; 1Ki 2:12; 3:6,7; 1Ch 29:15,23; Ec 1:4; 2:18,19

as the Lord.

1Ch 17:11; 28:5

I put the ark.

5:7,10; Ex 40:20; 1Ki 8:9,21; Heb 9:4

the covenant.As "there was nothing in the ark but the two tables of stone," consequently they are called the covenant, i.e., a sign of the covenant.

‏ Psalms 18:8-11

went.

11:6; 21:9; 74:1; 104:32; 144:5,6; Ge 19:28; Le 10:2; Nu 11:1; 16:35

De 29:20,23,24, 2Th 1:8

out of his. Heb. by his. fire.

Da 7:10; Am 4:11; Na 1:5,6; Re 11:5

He bowed.Jehovah is here represented as a mighty warrior going forth to fight the battles of David. When He descended to the engagement, the very heavens bowed to render his descent more awful: His military tent was substantial darkness; the voice of His thunder was the warlike alarm which sounded to battle; the chariot in which He rode was the thick clouds of heaven, conducted by cherubs, and carried on by the irresistible force and rapid wings of an impetuous tempest; and the darts and weapons He employed were thunder-bolts, lightnings, fiery hail, deluging rains, and stormy winds! No wonder that when God arose all His enemies were scattered, and those that hated Him fled before Him.

68:4; 144:5-15; De 33:26; 2Sa 22:10; Isa 51:6; Joe 3:16; Mt 24:29

Heb 12:26; 2Pe 3:10; Re 20:11

darkness.

De 5:22,23; Mr 15:33; Joh 13:7

rode.

99:1; 2Sa 22:11,12; Eze 1:5-14; 10:20-22

he did fly.

104:3

secret.

27:5; 81:7; 91:1

thick.

97:2; De 4:11; Joe 2:2