2 Samuel 22:7
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
King James Version
In Context
6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
8Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
Psalms 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psalms 116:4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Jonah 2:4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →