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Psalms 18:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

He delivered me from my strong enemy. This is generally understood of Saul. By the defeat of Gilboa, and its consequences (1 Samuel 31:1-4), God delivered David from the peril of death which hung over him so long as Saul lived.

And from them which hated me. David's enemies among the courtiers of Saul were powerless without their master. Many, probably, fell in the battle; the rest sank into obscurity. For they were too strong for me.

I must have succumbed to them had not God helped me.

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