2 Samuel 22:9
A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
10He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
Deuteronomy 32:22A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
2 Samuel 22:16And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.
Job 41:20As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
Psalms 18:15And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
Isaiah 30:27Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.
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 →