2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the waves of death encompassed me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions,
Psalms 116:3The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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 →