2 Samuel 22:10

And he bowed the heavens, and came down; And darkness was under his feet.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

In Context

9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals burned forth from it.

11And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; And he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was.

1 Kings 8:12Then said Solomon: Jehovah said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

Isaiah 63:19We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.

Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Luke 23:44And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there came darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour.

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 →

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