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Psalm 18

Psa. 18:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He bowed
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
u the heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
also, and came down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
: and darkness
`araphel (Hebrew #6205)
gloom (as of a lowering sky)
KJV usage: (gross, thick) dark (cloud, -ness).
Pronounce: ar-aw-fel'
Origin: probably from 6201
was under his feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
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Psa. 144:5• 5Jehovah, bow thy heavens and come down;{HR}Touch (on) the mountains, and they smoke. (Psa. 144:5)
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Darkness,
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Cross References

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He bowed.Jehovah is here represented as a mighty warrior going forth to fight the battles of David.
When He descended to the engagement, the very heavens bowed to render his descent more awful:
His military tent was substantial darkness; the voice of His thunder was the warlike alarm which sounded to battle; the chariot in which He rode was the thick clouds of heaven, conducted by cherubs, and carried on by the irresistible force and rapid wings of an impetuous tempest; and the darts and weapons He employed were thunder-bolts, lightnings, fiery hail, deluging rains, and stormy winds!
No wonder that when God arose all His enemies were scattered, and those that hated Him fled before Him.
Psa. 68:4• 4Sing to God, sing praises to his name;{HR}Cast up a way for him that rideth in the deserts:{HR}His name [is] Jah, and exult ye before him. (Psa. 68:4)
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Psa. 144:5‑15• 5Jehovah, bow thy heavens and come down;{HR}Touch (on) the mountains, and they smoke.
 6Shine out lightnings, and scatter them;{HR}Send thine arrows, and discomfit them.
 7Stretch (send) thy hands from above;{HR}Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from hand of aliens (sons of strangeness).
 8Whose mouth speaketh vanity,{HR}And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
 9O God, a new song I will sing to thee;{HR}With a ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms to thee,
 10That givest salvation to kings,{HR}That rescuest David his servant from an evil sword.
 11Rescue me and deliver me from hand of aliens,{HR}Whose mouth speaketh vanity,{HR}And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood;
 12That our sons [be] as plants grown up in their youth,{HR}Our daughters as corner-stones hewn [in] the fashion of a palace;
 13Our granaries full, affording from kind to kind;{HR}Our sheep bearing thousands,{HR}Bearing ten thousands in our fields;
 14Our oxen laden; no breach, and no loss,{HR}And no outcry in our streets.
 15Blessed the people to which [it is] thus;{HR}Blessed the people whose God [is] Jehovah. (Psa. 144:5‑15)
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Deut. 33:26• 26There is none like the God of Jeshurun,{HR}Riding the heavens for thy help,{HR}And for his excellency the skies. (Deut. 33:26)
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2 Sam. 22:10• 10And he bowed the heavens, and came down;{HR}And darkness was under his feet.{HR} (2 Sam. 22:10)
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Isa. 51:6• 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. (Isa. 51:6)
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Joel 3:16• 16Jehovah also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. (Joel 3:16)
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Matt. 24:29• 29But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Matt. 24:29)
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Heb. 12:26• 26whose voice then shook the earth, but now hath he promised, saying, Yet once will I shake not only the earth but also the heaven. (Heb. 12:26)
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2 Peter 3:10• 10But the day of [the] Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens shall pass away with rushing noise, and elements, with fervent heat, shall be dissolved, and [the] earth and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. (2 Peter 3:10)
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Rev. 20:11• 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. (Rev. 20:11)
darkness.
Deut. 5:22‑23• 22These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
 23And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, and the mountain burned with fire, that ye came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; (Deut. 5:22‑23)
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Mark 15:33• 33And when [the] sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour. (Mark 15:33)
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John 13:7• 7Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing thou knowest not just now, but shalt know afterwards. (John 13:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he boweth the heavens and cometh down,{HR}And darkness [is] under his feet.