2 Samuel 22:20
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
In Context
19They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.
Cross References
Genesis 26:22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said: 'For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.'
1 Chronicles 4:10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying: 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Thy hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest work deliverance from evil, that it may not pain me!' And God granted him that which he requested.
Psalms 31:8(31-9) And Thou hast not given me over into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a broad place.
Psalms 118:5Out of my straits I called upon the LORD; He answered me with great enlargement.
Psalms 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in His people; He adorneth the humble with salvation.
Hosea 4:16For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place?
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 →