2 Samuel 22:19

He went before me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my firmament.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

In Context

18He freed me from my most powerful enemy and from those who had hated me. For they were too strong for me.

20And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:26And Saul went to one side of the mountain. But David and his men were on the other side of the mountain. Then David was despairing that he would be able to escape from the face of Saul. And Saul and his men enclosed David and his men in the manner of a crown, so that they might capture them.

Psalms 71:20The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.

Isaiah 26:19Your dead shall live. My slain will rise again. Be awakened, and give praise, you who live in the dust! For your dew is the dew of the light, and you shall be dragged down to the land of the giants, to ruination.

Isaiah 50:10Who is there among you who fears the Lord? Who hears the voice of his servant? Who has walked in darkness, and there is no light in him? Let him hope in the name of the Lord, and let him lean upon his God.

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 →

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