2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
In Context
9A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.
11And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.
Cross References
Exodus 20:21And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.
1 Kings 8:12Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.
Psalms 104:3who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.
Isaiah 63:19We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
Luke 23:44And it was almost the sixth hour; and there was darkness over all the earth 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 →