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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 27:1-14

The real significance of this psalm is that of the experience of worship. It is somewhat strange that the remarkable contrast between the first (vv. Psa 27:1-6 ) and second (vv. Psa 27:7-14 ) parts has given rise to the view that two men have written the psalm, or if one person is the author, he must have written them at different times. The psalm reveals the true attitude and exercise of the worshipping soul. Praise and prayer follow each other in their true order. First the offering of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 27:3

Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident. In the light of YHWH’s presence with him nothing could stand against him. Whether it be an enemy encamped against him, and he had seen many of those, or whether it be open war, he had nothing to be afraid of, for his confidence lay in the One Who was mighty in battle, YHWH of hosts (Psalms 24:8; Psalms 24:10). In quietness and in confidence would be his strength... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 27:1-14

XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1-Joshua : is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7-2 Chronicles : the poet is in grievous affliction and implores Yahweh’ s help. Psalms 27:10 . Read mg. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 27:3

In that which I have now said, that God is my light, &c., Psalms 27:1, and in the experience of his favour and protection, Psalms 27:2. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 27:1-14

INTRODUCTIONThis psalm has been referred by some to the period of David’s waiting for the kingdom; by others, to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. Hengstenberg says: “All attempts to find out any occasion to which the psalm especially referred have failed, and from this failure; we may infer either that David originally uttered the psalm from the soul of the oppressed righteous man, or that, if he wrote it in reference to a particular occasion, he generalised his own experience.”THE FEARLESSNESS... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 27:1-14

REFLECTIONS. This Psalm professes to have been written in mature age, and after David’s head was lifted up above his enemies. The Lord was become his light and salvation; whom in future was he to fear? Past deliverances should always inspire hopes for the future. In the time of triumph and of joy he made religion his chief delight. “One thing have I desired of the Lord.” That voice, “one thing is needful,” should often sound in our ears. David in all his exile had preserved a confidence in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:1-14

Psalms 27:1-14The Lord is my light and my salvation. Implicit trustThis psalm was written by a man who was at the moment far down in the depths of spiritual conflict, and yet was holding a steady front against his troubles, after all. He prays so passionately, that we should deem him weak even to cowardice, if it were not for the fact that he praises so jubilantly, and lifts his head with a most unsubdued ring in his voice. The psalm is like a summer cloud just before a storm, in that it... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:3

Psalms 27:3My heart shall not fear.A stout heartThese are the words of a veteran, not of a raw recruit in the battle of life. A first disaster brings consternation; a ripened experience alone can take calamity calmly. God educates His servants by hard discipline, in conflict with the forces of evil; and He educates the world by calling it to watch the contest.I. in the strife between good and evil, the good seems to be fearfully overmatched. The host of Midian were as grasshoppers for... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:3

Psa 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident. Ver. 3. Though an host should encamp against me ] See Psalms 3:6 , See Trapp on " Psa 3:6 " We should propound the worst to ourselves (the best will bring with it, as we say), especially if we find our faith to be in heart and vigour, as here David’s was. Though war should rise against me ] War is a complex evil, and is, therefore, called so by a... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 27:3

host: Psalms 3:6, Psalms 52:6, 2 Kings 6:15-Esther :, 2 Chronicles 20:15, Philippians 1:28, 1 Peter 3:14 war: 1 Samuel 28:15, 1 Samuel 28:16, Isaiah 41:11, Isaiah 41:12, Isaiah 54:16, Isaiah 54:17, Romans 8:35-Haggai :, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 12:7-1 Kings : in: 2 Corinthians 5:6-Ruth : Reciprocal: Judges 6:33 - Then all 1 Samuel 19:8 - David 2 Kings 6:16 - Fear not Esther 5:9 - he was full Job 5:20 - in war Psalms 46:2 - will Mark 13:7 - when John 18:4 - Whom Romans 5:4 - and experience read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 27:1-14

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 27:3

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 27:1-14

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 27:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 27:1-14

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 27:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:3

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 27:3

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