2 Samuel 22:20
And he brought me forth into a large space: he delivered me, because he had delight in me.
Leeser Tanakh
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 overcame me on the day of my calamity; but the Lord became my stay;
Cross References
Genesis 26:22And he removed from there, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rechoboth, and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall increase in the land.
1 Chronicles 4:10And Ja'bez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my boundary, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst act for me against the evil, that it may not give me pain! And God granted him what he had asked for.
Psalms 31:8(31:9) And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of the enemy: thou hast caused my feet to stand on an ample space.
Psalms 118:5From the midst of distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me with enlargement.
Psalms 149:4For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; he will adorn the meek with salvation.
Hosea 4:16For like an untamable cow is Israel disobedient: now would the Lord have fed them as a sheep in a wide pasture.
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 →