2 Samuel 22:12
And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
In Context
11And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
13Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.
Cross References
Job 36:29And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?
Psalms 27:5For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →