2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
In Context
9Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
11And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He was seen upon the wings of the wind.
Cross References
Exodus 20:21(20-18) And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
1 Kings 8:12Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalms 104:3Who layest the beams of Thine upper chambers in the waters, who makest the clouds Thy chariot, who walkest upon the wings of the wind;
Isaiah 63:19We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name.
Nahum 1:3The LORD is long-suffering, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty; the LORD, in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.
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 →