2 Samuel 22:1
And David spoke to LORD the words of this song in the day that LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
A Conservative Version
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In Context
2And he said, LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:30And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:
1 Samuel 23:14And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.
1 Samuel 25:29And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the bor
2 Samuel 22:49and who brings me forth from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.
Psalms 18:18They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but LORD was my stay.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:1
This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms ( Ps. xviii. ) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his own closed and his own harp; but there we have it as it was afterwards delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church, a second edition with some amendments; for, though it was calculated primarily for David's case, yet it might indifferently serve the devotion of others, in giving thanks for their deliverances; or… Read the whole commentary →