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Literal Standard Version

2 Samuel 22:12

And He sets darkness around Him [for His] dwelling places, || Darkness of waters [and] thick 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;   Hafṭarah;  

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.
King James Version (1611)
And hee made darkenesse pauilions round about him, darke waters, and thicke 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

2and he says: "YHWH [is] my rock, || And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me, 3My God [is] my rock—I take refuge in Him; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, || My high tower, and my refuge! My Savior, You save me from violence! 4I call on YHWH, [who is worthy] to be praised: And I am saved from my enemies. 5When the breakers of death surrounded me, || The streams of the worthless terrify me, 6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || The snares of death have been before me. 7In my adversity I call on YHWH, || And I call to my God, || And He hears my voice from His temple, || And my cry [is] in His ears, 8And the earth shakes and trembles, || Foundations of the heavens are troubled, || And are shaken, for He has wrath! 9Smoke has gone up by His nostrils, || And fire devours from His mouth; Brands have been kindled by it. 10And He inclines the heavens and comes down, || And thick darkness [is] under His feet. 11And He rides on a cherub and flies, || And is seen on the wings of the wind.

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 says, "Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
Genesis 22:2
And He says, "Now take your son, your only one, whom you have loved, even Isaac, and go for yourself to the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak to you."
Genesis 22:6
And Abraham takes the wood of the burnt-offering, and places on his son Isaac, and he takes in his hand the fire, and the knife; and they go on both of them together.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham says, "God provides for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son"; and they go on both of them together.
Genesis 22:9
And they come to the place of which God has spoken to him, and there Abraham builds the altar, and arranges the wood, and binds his son Isaac, and places him on the altar above the wood;
Genesis 22:10
and Abraham puts forth his hand, and takes the knife—to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:12
and He says, "Do not put forth your hand to the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that you are fearing God, and have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me."
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;
Genesis 22:21
his firstborn Huz, and his brother Buz; and Kemuel father of Aram,
Genesis 22:22
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, 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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