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2 Samuel
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David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, See also: Exodus 15:1Judges 5:1Isaiah 12:1-6and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; See also: Psalms 18:2-50Psalms 31:3Psalms 71:3God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence. See also: Psalms 9:9Proverbs 18:10Isaiah 12:2I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. See also: Psalms 18:3Romans 10:13Psalms 116:2For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. See also: Jonah 2:3Psalms 69:14-15Revelation 17:1The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. See also: Psalms 116:3Psalms 18:5Acts 2:24In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. See also: Psalms 18:6Jonah 2:7Psalms 116:4Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. See also: Job 26:11Psalms 97:4Judges 5:4Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. See also: Hebrews 12:29Psalms 18:15Habakkuk 3:5He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. See also: 1 Kings 8:12Psalms 97:2Psalms 144:5He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. See also: Psalms 104:3Psalms 80:1Psalms 99:1He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. See also: Psalms 97:22 Samuel 22:10Job 36:29At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. See also: 2 Samuel 22:9The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. See also: 1 Samuel 2:10Job 37:2-5Psalms 29:3-9He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. See also: Deuteronomy 32:23Joshua 10:10Psalms 7:12-13Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. See also: Nahum 1:4Exodus 15:8-10Habakkuk 3:8-10He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. See also: Isaiah 43:2Psalms 144:7Psalms 18:16He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. See also: Psalms 56:92 Corinthians 1:102 Samuel 22:1They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. See also: Psalms 71:20-211 Samuel 23:26-271 Samuel 19:11-17He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. See also: Psalms 31:82 Samuel 15:26Psalms 118:5The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. See also: Psalms 24:4Psalms 7:81 Samuel 26:23For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. See also: Proverbs 8:32Genesis 18:19Psalms 128:1For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. See also: Psalms 119:30Psalms 119:102John 15:14I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. See also: Genesis 6:9Job 1:1Genesis 17:1Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. See also: 2 Samuel 22:21Romans 2:7-82 Corinthians 5:10With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. See also: Matthew 5:7James 2:13With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. See also: Matthew 5:8Psalms 18:26Leviticus 26:23-28You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. See also: Psalms 72:12-13James 4:6-7Isaiah 5:15For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness. See also: Psalms 27:1John 8:12Revelation 21:23For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. See also: Psalms 18:29Philippians 4:13Psalms 118:10-12As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. See also: Deuteronomy 32:4Proverbs 30:5Psalms 18:30For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? See also: 1 Samuel 2:2Deuteronomy 32:31Isaiah 44:6God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. See also: Ephesians 6:10Isaiah 41:10Psalms 28:7-8He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. See also: Isaiah 58:14Deuteronomy 32:13Habakkuk 3:19He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. See also: Psalms 144:1Psalms 18:33-34Ezekiel 39:9-10You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. See also: Ephesians 6:16Psalms 84:11Psalms 115:14You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. See also: Proverbs 4:12Psalms 17:51 Samuel 2:9I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. See also: Psalms 21:8-92 Samuel 8:1-22 Samuel 5:18-25I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. See also: Malachi 4:3Psalms 118:10-12Psalms 110:1For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. See also: Psalms 44:5Psalms 18:32Psalms 18:39You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. See also: Exodus 23:27Joshua 10:24Psalms 21:8-9They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them. See also: Isaiah 1:151 Samuel 28:6Micah 3:4Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. See also: Micah 7:10Isaiah 10:62 Kings 13:7You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. See also: Isaiah 55:52 Samuel 8:1-142 Samuel 3:1The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. See also: Psalms 81:15Psalms 66:3Isaiah 56:3The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. See also: Micah 7:17Isaiah 2:21Isaiah 64:6The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, See also: Psalms 89:262 Samuel 22:3Job 19:25even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, See also: Psalms 94:1Psalms 144:22 Samuel 18:19who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. See also: Psalms 140:11 Samuel 2:8Psalms 52:1Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. See also: Romans 15:9Psalms 146:1-2Psalms 18:49He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.” See also: Psalms 18:50Psalms 89:20Psalms 89:29
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Samuel 22:1
Ver. 1. Spoke, &c. By comparing this with the 17th Psalm, we may be convinced how much the Hebrew varies, particularly if we examine also the MSS. Kennicott specifies no less than 600
variations in this one canticle, and refutes the opinion of those who say that the 17th Psalm is a second edition, corrected by David's own hand, as the MSS. frequently shew that inaccuracies of the printed copies. He has collated them with Walton's Polyglott. The variations are not however all distinct from each other, sometimes twenty MSS. having the same various readings, and may of the relate to the letter v. See Diss. ii. p. 565. We shall give the explication in the order of the Psalms. The collation of parallel passages is of infinite advantage. Frequently (H.) the words differ so as to explain one another. --- Saul. He is specified as the most dangerous. David, by divine inspiration, thanks God for his deliverance from all his enemies, both corporal and spiritual, enjoying peace of mind on account of his sins being forgiven, and all his opponents repressed. W. --- This year, the thirty-seventh of David's reign, was free from any commotion.
Yet the king seems to have given way to a little vanity, on account of the many valiant men whom God had collected in his service; (C. xxiii.) and hence he consented to the unfortunate resolution of numbering his subjects. Salien, A.
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↑ 12 Samuel 22:7
Ver. 7. Temple. David was now busy in making preparations for it.
↑ 72 Samuel 22:11
Ver. 11. Upon. Cardell (M.) would translate the Heb. "as in contest."
↑ 112 Samuel 22:13
Ver. 13. Kindled. The words abju abru seem to be wanting here, as they are found in Syr. Arab.
and the Psalm. Kennicott would render this most striking image, "at the brightness of his presence his clouds removed; They kindled into colas of fire," &c. Diss. i.
↑ 132 Samuel 22:14
Ver. 14. Shall. Heb. as well in the past tense. "The Lord thundered," &c. H.
↑ 142 Samuel 22:16
Ver. 16. Overflowings. Heb. "channels," the waters receding as at the Red Sea, and at the passage of the Jordan.
↑ 162 Samuel 22:22
Ver. 22. God. Perhaps David might have written this before his fall; or, if afterwards, his sincere repentance had restored him to his former state.
↑ 222 Samuel 22:26
Ver. 26. Holy; treating all according to their deserts. H.
↑ 262 Samuel 22:29
Ver. 29. Lamp. Heb. Thair, "thou wilt light" my lamp, seems deficient; as it is found in some MSS. Syr. Arab. Ps. xvii. &c. Kennicott.
↑ 292 Samuel 22:44
Ver. 44. Me. Though David conquered some Gentiles, and some were converted to the true faith under the Old Testament, yet the fulness of the Gentiles belongs to the Church of Christ, the perpetual stability of which is here foretold, v. 51. W.
↑ 44License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses