Psalms 18:10
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
BSB
ASV
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
KJV
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 18:11-13 (339)
Secretly and with mysterious reckoning he represents his incarnation through [images of] darkness and thick clouds. At last he returns to the same place from whence he had set forth: and he ascends into the heavens with the cherubim and flies, although he had not descended with those cherubim, without the cherubim he himself bowed the heavens and descended. On his return it is said, "And he mounted on cherubs, and he flew," with the body he had assumed.
Cherub - Or, upon the cherubim, upon the angels, who are also called God's chariots, chap. lxviii, 17, upon which he is said to sit and ride. All which is not to be understood grossly, but only to denote God's using the ministry of angels, in raising such storms and tempests.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 80:1Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
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And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
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Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
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He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is…
He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
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Psalms 99:1The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!
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The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the distant shores be glad.
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you…
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.