Psalms 118:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Psalms 118:18 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
2 Corinthians 6:9
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
Job 5:17-18
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …
2 Corinthians 1:9-11
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: …
Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: …

Topics

Chastisement Correction Homage Judgments Punishment Thankfulness Worship

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

It appears here, as often as elsewhere, that David had his heart full of the goodness of God. He loved to think of it, loved to speak of it, and was very solicitous that God might have the praise of it and others the comfort of it. The more our hearts are impressed with a sense of God’s goodness the more they will be enlarged in all manner of obedience. In these verses, I. He celebrates God’s merc…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-18. He would live, because confident his life would be for God’s glory.