2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the pangs of death have sur rounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty :
Psalms 116:3dummy verses inserted by amos
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.
Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it.
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 →