Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Some put confidence in chariots and some in horses — in human strength and military and worldly power — but God's people remember the name of the Lord their God as their strength and deliverer. David impressed this reliance on God upon Israel in his songs, commemorating remarkable deliverances in which dangers that threatened the nation with destruction became through God's providence the means of its rise to unprecedented greatness. At the waters of Merom Israel faced a much larger northern Canaanite confederacy with very many horses and chariots, God gave the victory, and then commanded that the captured chariots be burned and the horses be lamed to make them unfit for battle, so Israel would not take Canaanite weapons for itself and put confidence in them.
Together with Psalms 19 and 20, the verse is a word given for God's people now, holding a precious promise to accept and a warning to believe amid spiritual peril. It calls every soul to awake to true spiritual condition, to humility and surrender with heart and mind humbled before God, and to faithfulness, warning of the perils surrounding those indifferent to the soul's eternal welfare. It urges searching the Scriptures as never before, taking God's Word as educator and guide in order to know what the Scriptures say.
Some put confidence in chariots and some in horses — in human strength and military and worldly power — but God's people remember the name of the Lord their God as their strength and deliverer. David impressed this reliance on God upon Israel in his songs, commemorating remarkable deliverances in which dangers that threatened the nation with destruction became through God's providence the means of its rise to unprecedented greatness. At the waters of Merom Israel faced a much larger northern Canaanite confederacy with very many horses and chariots, God gave the victory, and then commanded that the captured chariots be burned and the horses be lamed to make them unfit for battle, so Israel would not take Canaanite weapons for itself and put confidence in them.
Together with Psalms 19 and 20, the verse is a word given for God's people now, holding a precious promise to accept and a warning to believe amid spiritual peril. It calls every soul to awake to true spiritual condition, to humility and surrender with heart and mind humbled before God, and to faithfulness, warning of the perils surrounding those indifferent to the soul's eternal welfare. It urges searching the Scriptures as never before, taking God's Word as educator and guide in order to know what the Scriptures say.