2 Samuel 22:7

In my distress I called upon Jehovah; Yea, I called unto my God: And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry [came] into his ears.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In Context

6The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

8Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;

Psalms 27:4One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 34:15The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are [open] unto their cry.

Psalms 116:4Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Jonah 2:4And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Habakkuk 2:20But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

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 →

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