The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XXII. & PSAL. XVIII.

THere are two things that may seem to argue this not to be the proper place of this Psalm and Chapter, 1. Because it was most especially com∣posed upon Davids delivery from the hand of Saul, as the title sheweth: In the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, that is, especially out of the hand of Saul, as Josh. 2. 1. Go view the land and Jericho, that is, Jericho chiefly. 2. Because the next Chapter in Samuel beginning thus: And these are the latter words of David: shewing, that these of Chap. 22. were uttered a good while before them: But howsoever this Song of deliverance might be penned by David many years a go, upon his clear deliverance from all trouble by Saul and his Family, yet is it most properly laid here, and repeated by David at this time, when now all his enemies had spit their venom, and he was delivered from them all▪ and now we hear of no

more enemies of his stirring, but himself an enemy to himself in numbring the people. If any one will be so curious, he may read Psal. 18. at the end of 2 Sam. 4. when David is quit from the trouble of Sauls house: and he may read this, 2 Sam. 22. which is the same thing again here.