2 Samuel 22:18
He freed me from my most powerful enemy and from those who had hated me. For they were too strong for me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
In Context
17He sent from on high, and he took me up. And he drew me out of many waters.
19He went before me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my firmament.
Cross References
Psalms 3:7I will not fear the thousands of people surrounding me. Rise up, Lord. Save me, my God.
Psalms 56:9Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.
2 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the preaching would be accomplished, and so that all the Gentiles would hear. And I was freed from the mouth of the lion.
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 →