2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Psalms 116:3The cords of death compassed me, and the straits of the nether-world got hold upon me; I found trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
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 →