2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heauens also, and came downe, and darkenes was vnder his feete.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
In Context
9Smoke went out at his nostrels, and consuming fire out of his mouth: coles were kindled thereat.
11And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, and hee was seene vpon the winges of the winde.
Cross References
Exodus 20:21So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was.
1 Kings 8:12Then spake Salomon, The Lord said, that he woulde dwell in the darke cloude.
Psalms 104:3Which layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the cloudes his chariot, and walketh vpon the wings of the winde.
Isaiah 63:19We haue bene as they, ouer whome thou neuer barest rule, and vpon whom thy Name was not called.
Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and will not surely cleare the wicked: the Lord hath his way in ye whirlewind, and in the storme, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete.
Luke 23:44And it was about the sixt houre: and there was a darkenes ouer all the land, vntill the ninth houre.
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 →