Psalms 18:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

Psalms 18:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 144:5-15
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. …
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Deuteronomy 5:22-23
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-19)

The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (2 Sam. 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note, The private compositions of good men, designed by them for their own use, may be serviceable to the public, that others may not only borrow light from their candle, but heat from their fire. Example…

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

(vv. 9)

9. darkness--or, a dense cloud (Ex 19:16; De 5:22).