2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
In Context
46They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
48It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
2 Samuel 22:3My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.
Psalms 89:26\89:25\I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Luke 1:47My spirit is glad in God my Saviour.
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 →