2 Samuel 22:20
And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
In Context
19He went before me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my firmament.
Cross References
Genesis 26:22Advancing from there, he dug another well, over which they did not contend. And so he called its name, ‘Latitude,’ saying, “Now the Lord has expanded us and caused us to increase across the land.”
1 Chronicles 4:10Truly, Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “If only, when blessing, you will bless me, and will broaden my borders, and your hand will be with me, and you will cause me not to be oppressed by evil.” And God granted to him the things for which he prayed.
Psalms 31:8I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.
Psalms 118:5I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications.
Psalms 149:4For the Lord is well pleased with his people, and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
Hosea 4:16For Israel has gone astray like a wanton heifer; so now the Lord will pasture them like a young lamb in a wide expanse.
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 →