He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
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He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
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And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
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And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
- Job 36:29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
- Psalms 18:11-12 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
- Psalms 97:2 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
- Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according…
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. See Gill on Psa 18:20.
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2 Samuel 22:22
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sa2 22:22For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. See Gill on Psa 18:21.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Darkness… waters… clouds — All these constitute his…
12. Darkness… waters… clouds — All these constitute his dwelling, tent, or pavilion, when he moves forth in the dispensations of his providence. His judgments are a great deep, and founded in reasons oft hid from the minds of men.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. More fully in Psa_18:11 : “He made darkness…
12. More fully in Psa_18:11 : “He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about him; even darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.” The darkness of the clouds is the tent in which God shrouds His Majesty.
dark waters] So Psa_18:11; but the word here, which is most probably the original reading, means the gathering of waters.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Made darkness pavilions.—Psalms 18, more fully, “He made…
(12) Made darkness pavilions.—Psalms 18, more fully, “He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters.” A word appears to have dropped out here, and in the second clause the margin, “binding (or gathering) of waters” is a more exact translation, the word differing in one letter from that used in the psalm.
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