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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 16 Michtam of David. This is a new title, not met with before, though it afterwards is prefixed to "five" psalms running, the fifty sixth, the fifty seventh, the fifty eighth, the fifty ninth, and the sixtieth psalms. Some take the word "michtam" to be the name of a musical instrument, as Kimchi on Psalms 4:1; others the name of one of the tunes, as Jarchi; and others the...
John Gill
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,.... Meaning, not in the place of the damned, where Christ never went, nor was; for at his death his soul was committed to his Father, and was the same day in paradise: but rather, "sheol" here, as "hades" in the Near Testament, signifies the state of the dead, the separate state of souls after death, the invisible world of souls, where Christ's soul was;...
Matthew Henry
This psalm has something of David in it, but much more of Christ. It begins with such expressions of devotion as may be applied to Christ; but concludes with such confidence of a resurrection (and so timely a one as to prevent corruption) as must be applied to Christ, to him only, and cannot be understood of David, as both St. Peter and St. Paul have observed, Acts ii. 24; xiii. 36. For David...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; “Sheol”—the place of the departed, the intermediate state into which the soul passes at death. Psa_16:10. Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. In the fullest sense, this verse belongs to Christ alone; but, still, what belongs to the Head is also the portion of the members of his mystical body.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Or, rather, Hades, the abode of the dead.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Now David was gathered to his fathers, and his body saw corruption, as the apostle Peter rightly observed, so it is clear that he is not speaking of himself here, not in the first place, at any rate, but of “great David’s greater Son,” our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: “Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”