Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 27:5

5. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me, he shall set me up upon a rock .

Or, hath hid me: Or, useth to hide me. Justly do I prize the House and Service of God so highly, both because I have such vast Obligations to him, for his former Protection and Favours, and because all my Hope and Confidence, and security depends upon him.

In his Tabernacle, into which mine Enemies cannot come, and a secret place in it, where, if they come, they cannot find me. Or, as it were (for the Note of [illegible: 1+ letters]imilitude is oft understood) in the secret of his Tabernacle, (i. e.) In as safe a place, as the Holy of Holies, which is called Gods secret, Ezek. 7. 22▪ where none might come but the High-Priest, and he but one day in a year. He alludes to the antient Custom of Offenders, who used to flee to the Tabernacle or Altar, where they esteemed themselves safe, 1 Kings 2. 28.

A place high and inaccessable, strong and impregnable.

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