Psalms 18:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentlenessi hath made me great. ”

• Psalms 18:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvations - Thou hast saved me as with a shield; thou hast thrown thy shield before me in times of danger. See the note at Psalms 5:12 . And thy rig...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou hast also given me the (b) shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy (c) gentleness hath made me great. (b) To defend me from dangers. (c) He attributed the beginn...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 additio...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  gentleness . condescension.

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• Psalms 18:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. The shield of thy salvation - In all battles and dangers God defended...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation, &c.— i.e. "The salvation which thou hast afforded me, hath been my constant protection and security; and thy gentleness; i.e. (as I think...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Here follows the fourth section of the psalm. The aid which God had given the Psalmist against foreign enemies, after...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 c...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thy gentleness. — Or, meekness, as in margin. We cannot afford to sacrifice this striking foreshadowing of His saying of Himself, “I am meek and lowly,” to the scare of a word like anthropomorph...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 18:1-50 THE description of the theophany ( Psalms 18:7-19 ) and that of the psalmist's God-won victories ( Psalms 18:32-46 ) appear to refer to the same facts, transfigured in the former ca...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Girded with Strength for Service Psalms 18:27-50 God's way is perfect, and if only we will walk with Him He will make ours perfect also. Walls and troops cannot stop a man when God leads him th...

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• Psalms 18:35 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These are all glorious triumphs of our risen and exalted Saviour. And He who hath thus conquered for us, can and will conquer sin in us. Like another Joshua, our Almighty Leader and Commander, which...

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• Psalms 18:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation ,.... Meaning either temporal salvation, which was a shield to him when he had no outward one, as when he fought with Goliath; and was what preserved h...

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• Psalms 18:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. Ver. 35. Thou hast also given me, &c. ] i.e. Thou hast prese...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation Thy protection, which hath been to me like a shield to defend me. Thy right hand hath holden me up Kept me from falling into those snares and mischi...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Grateful Remembrance of Past Deliverances; Confidence in the Divine Goodness.       29 For by thee I have run through a tr...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The shield of thy salvation; thy safeguard and protection, which hath been to me like a shield to defend me. Holden me up; kept me from falling into those snares and mischiefs which mine enemies...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  David Gives A Summary of What God Is And Of All God's Blessings to Him ( Psalms 18:30-36 ). Psalms 18:30 ‘As for God, his way is perfect, The word of YHWH is tried (tested and proved true), H...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 commen...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 18:35 Consider how the gentleness of a loving correction makes God's children great. For we ought, all of us, to wish to be great great in the school of Christ, great in the Divine life, gr...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 s...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 18:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thy gentleness hath made me great. The gentleness of God When the coarse mind of sin makes up gods by its own natural light, those gods reveal the coarseness and the sin together. The God of re...

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• Psalms 18:35 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 18:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Giving all Glory to God Alone

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• Psalms 18:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 10:1 ; 2 Samuel 22:36 ; Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Galatians 5:22 ; Galatians 5:23 ; Isaiah 22:3 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; James 3:17 ; James 3:18 ; Psalms 17:7 ; Psalms 28:7 ; Psalms 45:3...

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• Psalms 18:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Salvation — Thy protection, which hath been to me like a shield. Held — Kept me from, falling into those mischiefs, which mine enemies designed. Gentleness — Thy clemency, whereby thou hast pardone...

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