Psalms 144:6

Cast forth. Flash. Hebrew lighten lightnings. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). See note on Genesis 26:28.

arrows. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 144:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them - See the notes at Psalms 18:14 : “He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.” The allusion there is t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(e) Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. (e) By these manner of speeches he shows that all the hindranc...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1-11 is really a mosaic chiefly t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Cast forth lightning - See the note Psalms 18:13-14 (note).
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Cast forth, &c.— Cast forth lightning, and make them [the heavens] swell: cast thy darts and melt them. Schult.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arr...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12-15 are, however, quite unlike anything else in...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Cast forth lightning. — Literally, lighten lightning, the verb being quite peculiar to this place.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 144:1-15 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses ( Psalms 144:1-11 )simply a...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Are Happy Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chief...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appre...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In every sense this prayer is striking, and beautiful in whatever sense it be considered; whether as the prayer of the church for the Lord to come do...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them ,.... The mountains, the kings and kingdoms of the earth; the enemies of David, and of Christ, and of his peo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Ver. 6. Cast forth lightning, and scatter them ] All this was do...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bow thy heavens and come down To help me before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. “David having celebrated his...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy thunderbolts, which oft accompany the lightnings and thunder.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11 , consists almost entirely of a cento of...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one diffi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The Lord teaching us to fight I do not know what that...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thanksgiving and Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Cast forth lightning, in a mighty thunderstorm, and scatter them; shoot out Thine arrows, for the lightnings were considered the arrows of the maje...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 144:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 144:6