2 Samuel 22:12
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
In Context
11He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
13From the brightness of His presence coals of fire blazed forth.
Cross References
Job 36:29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high 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 →