2 Samuel 22:29
For thou are my lamp, O LORD. And LORD will lighten my darkness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
30For by thee I run upon a troop. By my God do I leap over a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
Psalms 18:28For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Psalms 112:4To the upright there arises light in the darkness. [He is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19The sun shall no more be thy light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to thee, but LORD will be to thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Malachi 4:2But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.
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 →