2 Samuel 22:1

And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

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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:

In Context

2And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 31:30Then in the hearing of all the meeting of Israel, Moses said the words of this song, to the end.

1 Samuel 23:14And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.

1 Samuel 25:29And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

1 Samuel 27:1And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

2 Samuel 22:49He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

Psalms 18:18\18:17\He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

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 →

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