At this point I want to make a correction for something that I said in the last two sermons. In II Samuel 22:33, I identified the word strength as the same word chayil. But I had made a mistake that I need to correct right now. The word chayil does appear in this verse but it is with not the word strength, it is translated in the word power. This does not change what I had said before about God being the source of everything good and the power that only comes from God. The word strength is from the Hebrew word maoz, meaning a refuge, a fortress, a shelter. It is used figuratively of God as a fortress.
In verse 33, that word strength is the same word, chayil. David declares all strength, as well as everything good that virtuous represents comes from God.
