Psalm 16 Gill's Exposition  Michtam of David. This is a new
title, not met with before, though it afterwards is prefixed to
"five" psalms running, the fifty sixth, the fifty seventh, the
fifty eighth, the fifty ninth, and the sixtieth psalms. Some
take the word "michtam" to be the name of a musical instrument,
as Kimchi on Psalm 4:1; others the name of one of the tunes, as
Jarchi; and others the tune of a song which began with this
word, as Aben Ezra observes, to which this psalm was sung; the
Septuagint translate it "stelography", or an inscription upon a
pillar; such an one as is erected by conquerors, as Theodoret
observes, having writing on it declaring the victory obtained;
suggesting that the psalm, or the subject of it, the death and
resurrection of Christ, was worthy to be inscribed on a pillar
of marble; and the Targum renders it, "a right engraving", that
deserves to be engraven in a monument of brass: but what seems
to be the best sense of the word is, that it signifies a work of
gold, and may be r