2 Samuel 22:12
He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
In Context
11He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
13At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.
Cross References
Job 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?
Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on 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 →