King James Version
2 Samuel 22:10 in the King James Version says “He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.”
2 Samuel 22:10 · KJV
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. out of his nostrils: Heb. by, etc
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. dark: Heb. binding of waters
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He bowed”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“the heavens”
H8064the 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 r
“also and came down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“was under his feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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