2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
In Context
46The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.
48God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
2 Samuel 22:3God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.
Psalms 89:26And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.
Luke 1:47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
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 →