Psa 18:12-13 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed ] The word nogah signifies the lightning . This goes before him : the flash is seen before the thunder is heard, and before the rain descends; and then the thick cloud passes . Its contents are precipitated on the earth, and the cloud is entirely dissipated. Hail-stones and coals of fire. ] This was the storm that followed the flash and the peal ; for it is immediately added-

‏ Psalms 18:12-13

Verse 12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed] The word nogah signifies the lightning. This goes before him: the flash is seen before the thunder is heard, and before the rain descends; and then the thick cloud passes. Its contents are precipitated on the earth, and the cloud is entirely dissipated.

Hail-stones and coals of fire.] This was the storm that followed the flash and the peal; for it is immediately added-

Verse 13. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice] And then followed the hail and coals of fire. The former verse mentioned the lightning, with its effects; this gives us the report of the thunder, and the increasing storm of hail and fire that attended it. Some think the words hail-stones and coals of fire are entered here by some careless transcribers from the preceding verse; and it is true that they are wanting in the Septuagint and the Arabic, in the parallel place in 2 Samuel, and in five of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. I should rather, with Bishop Horsley, suppose them to be an interpolation in the preceding verse: or in that to have been borrowed from this; for this most certainly is their true place.