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Thursday, August 28th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Samuel 22:12

And hee made darkenesse pauilions round about him, darke waters, and thicke clouds of the skies.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Darkness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Pavilion;   Sky;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Clouds;   Darkness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pavilion;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cloud;   Pavilion;   Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pavilion;   Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Pavilion;   Poetry;   Salvation, Saviour;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pavilion;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel first and second books of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Pavilion;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Make;   Pavilion;   Sky;   Tent;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Darkness;   Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He made darkness a canopy around him,a gathering of water and thick clouds.
Hebrew Names Version
He made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Lexham English Bible
He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of thick rain clouds.
English Standard Version
He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
New Century Version
He made darkness his shelter, surrounded by fog and clouds.
New English Translation
He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
Amplified Bible
"He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
New American Standard Bible
"He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee made darkenesse a Tabernacle round about him, euen the gatherings of waters, and the cloudes of the ayre.
Legacy Standard Bible
And He made darkness canopies around Him,A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Contemporary English Version
Darkness was your tent! Thunderclouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made darkness his canopy around him, thick clouds in the skies dense with water.
Darby Translation
And he made darkness round about him a tent, Gatherings of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Easy-to-Read Version
He wrapped himself in darkness that covered him like a tent. He was hidden by dark clouds filled with water.
George Lamsa Translation
And he made darkness his pavilion round about him, the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Good News Translation
He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him;
Literal Translation
And He made darkness pavilions all around Him, the gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He made darknes his pauylion rounde aboute him, thicke water in the cloudes of ye ayre.
American Standard Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Bible in Basic English
And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He made darknes a tabernacle rounde about him: with waters gathered together in thicke cloudes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.
English Revised Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Berean Standard Bible
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He puttide derknessis hidyng place in his cumpas, and riddlide watris fro the cloudis of heuenes;
Young's Literal Translation
And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.
Update Bible Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.
World English Bible
He made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
New King James Version
He made darkness canopies around Him, Dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
New Living Translation
He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.
New Life Bible
He made darkness around Him his tent, gathering waters, and clouds of the sky.
New Revised Standard
He made darkness around him a canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And made of the darkness around him, pavilions, - gathering of waters, clouds of vapours.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.
Revised Standard Version
He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

Contextual Overview

2 And he said, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and my deliuerer: 3 The God of my rocke, in him will I trust: hee is my shield, and the horne of my saluation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Sauiour; thou sauest me from violence. 4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saued from mine enemies. 5 When the waues of death compassed me: the floods of vngodly men made me afraid. 6 The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me. 7 In my distresse I called vpon the Lord, and cryed to my God, and hee did heare my voice out of his Temple, and my crie did enter into his eares. 8 Then the earth shooke and trembled: the foundations of heauen mooued and shooke, because hee was wroth. 9 There went vp a smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it. 10 Hee bowed the heauens also and came downe: and darkenesse was vnder his feete. 11 And he rode vpon a Cherub, and did flie: and hee was seene vpon the wings of the winde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made: 2 Samuel 22:10, Psalms 18:11, Psalms 18:12, Psalms 27:5, Psalms 97:2

dark waters: Heb. binding waters

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:10 - rode Psalms 144:6 - Cast forth

Cross-References

Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the feare of God is not in this place: and they will slay mee for my wiues sake.
Genesis 22:2
And he said, Take now thy sonne, thine onely sonne Isaac, whom thou louest, and get thee into the land of Moriah: and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the Mountaines which I will tell thee of.
Genesis 22:6
And Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offering, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne: and he tooke the fire in his hand, and a knife: and they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My sonne, God will prouide himselfe a lambe for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had tolde him of, and Abraham built an Altar there, and layd the wood in order, and bound Isaac his sonne, and layde him on the Altar vpon the wood.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched foorth his hand, and tooke the knife to slay his sonne.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand vpon the lad, neither do thou any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withhelde thy sonne, thine onely sonne from mee.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted vp his eyes, and looked, and beholde, behinde him a Ramme caught in a thicket by his hornes: And Abraham went and tooke the Ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering, in the stead of his sonne.
Genesis 22:21
Huz his first borne, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
Genesis 22:22
And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,

[and] thick clouds of the skies. :-.


 
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