2 Samuel 22:36
You have given me the shield of your salvation. And your mildness has multiplied me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
In Context
35teaching my hands to do battle, and making my arms like a bow of brass.
37You will enlarge my steps under me, and my ankles will not fail.
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
Genesis 22:17I will bless you, and I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.
Psalms 84:11Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.
Ephesians 6:16In all things, take up the shield of faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.
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 →