2 Samuel 22:6
The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
Darby Translation
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 encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
Psalms 116:3The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
Acts 2:24Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
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 →