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7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalms 140:7

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

  • He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

  • He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

  • To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. …

  • The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

In this , as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colo…

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