when the word is applied to God; see especially 42:13 (parallel with ‘man of wars’). At Ps. 24:8 the Lord is described as a ‘גבור of/in battle’. Just as we have איש גבור as a mighty man who the context shows was a warrior (1 Sam. 14:52) and מלך גבור as a mighty king to whom the same considerations apply (Dan. 11:3), so here we have אל גבור, a Mighty God to carry out his remarkable plan which the context earlier in the poem also suggests should include military deliverance for his people.123 Nonetheless,
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