2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Bible in Basic English
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 came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
Psalms 116:3The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.
Acts 2:24But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome 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 →