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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 27 [A Psalm] of David. The Septuagint interpreters add to this title, "before he was anointed". David was anointed three times, first when a youth in his father's house; but this psalm could not be written before that time, because he had not had then any experience of war, nor could be in any immediate apprehension of it, as here suggested; he was anointed a second time,...
John Gill
When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me,.... They are wicked men, men of malignant spirits, and evildoers, who are the enemies and foes of the people of God, and who hate them with an implacable hatred, and do everything they can to distress and afflict them; and such enemies David had, who were many and mighty; and these "came upon" him, or "approached against" him (c),...
Matthew Henry
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him (2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17) and his people thereupon resolved he should never venture...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. They were both wicked in character, and fierce in disposition, for they had resolved to eat him right up, as wild beasts might have done. They were successful as far as they were permitted to go, for he says, “They came upon me.” Yet he needed not to lift either sword or spear against them,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. This is the record of the psalmist’s past experience. David was a soldier, and he had a soldier’s dangers and a soldier’s deliverance’s; and here he writes the history of his battles. These are dispatches from the field. When the psalmist’s enemies rushed upon him, like hungry lions, seeking...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They were very fierce. Like cannibals, they meant to eat me right up. They would not have spared me. They ‘came upon me’ in such a fashion that I was taken at a disadvantage. I seemed to be altogether in their power, but ‘they stumbled and fell.’ I had not to lift a hand against them, but the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. If we are on the Lord’s side, discomfiture of our enemies shall be total and final; they shall fall to the ground. They may be very many, and very varied, so as to be described under two names, — enemies and foes; they may be very ferocious, so that, like the wild beasts of the forest, they...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Good men have enemies because they are good men. There are two classes in the world, — the righteous and the wicked, — the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; and you know that, even in Eden, the Lord said to the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between...
Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. “They wanted to destroy me altogether — to eat me right up.” If they did not destroy me, it was not from want of heart to do it, nor even from want of power, for there were many of them. But I had not to fight, for they fell before they reached me. “They stumbled end fell.”