And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
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Gill's Exposition
He made darkness his secret place,.... Which, and the dark waters in the next clause, are the same with the thick clouds in the last, in which Jehovah is represented as wrapping himself, and in which…
Barnes' Notes
And he rode upon a cherub - Compare Isa 14:13, note; Isa 37:16, note. The cherub in the theology of the Hebrews was a figurative representation of power and majesty, under the image of a being of a…
The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (Sa2 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note,…
Cambridge Bible
As the Shechinah, or mystic Presence of Jehovah in the cloud of glory, rested over the cherubim which were upon the "Mercy-seat" or covering of the ark (2Sa 6:2; Psa 80:1; Heb 9:5), so here Jehovah is…
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