2 Samuel 22:6

The grave wound its ropes around me; death set snares for me.

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In The King James Version

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

In Context

5The waves of death swept over me; surging waters of destruction flooded over me;

7In my despair I called on the Lord; I called out to my God. He heard my voice from his Temple; my cry for help reached his ears.

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Cross References

Job 36:8If they are bound in chains, tied down by ropes of suffering,

Psalms 116:3I was caught in the snares of death; I was trapped by terrors of the grave. All I experienced was suffering and grief.

Proverbs 5:22The wicked are trapped by their evil actions; the cords of their sins tie them up.

Proverbs 14:27Respecting the Lord is like a fountain of life, so you can avoid the snares of death.

Acts 2:24But God raised him back to life, freeing him from the burden of death, because death did not have the power to keep him a prisoner.

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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