2 Samuel 22:10
And he bent the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
In Context
9Smoke went up in his anger, and consuming fire out of his mouth, coals flamed forth from him.
11And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
Cross References
Exodus 20:21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
1 Kings 8:12Then said Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalms 104:3Who frameth of the waters the beams of his upper-chambers; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh along upon the wings of the wind:
Isaiah 63:19We are become as though we are those over whom thou hast never ruled, over whom thy name hath not been called.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is long-suffering, and great in power, but he 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 →