2 Samuel 22:12
And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He was seen upon the wings of the wind.
13At the brightness before Him coals of fire flamed forth.
Cross References
Job 36:29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?
Psalms 27:5For He concealeth me in His pavilion in the day of evil; He hideth me in the covert of His tent; He lifteth me up upon a rock.
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 →