2 Samuel 22:29
For thou art my lamp, O Lord! and the Lord will enlighten my darkness.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
30For [aided] by thee I run through a troop: [helped] by my God I leap over a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3When his lamp shone over my head, when by his light I could walk in darkness;
Psalms 18:28(18:29) For thou wilt cause my light to shine: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalms 84:11(84:12) For a sun and shield is the Lord God; grace and glory will the Lord give; he will not withhold any good from those that walk with integrity.
Psalms 112:4There ariseth in the darkness a light to the upright: he is gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19The sun shall not be unto thee any more for a light by day, and for brightness shall the moon not give light unto thee; but the Lord will be unto thee for a light of everlasting, and thy God as thy glory.
Malachi 4:2(3:20) But there shall rise unto you that fear my name the sun of righteousness with healing in his wings: and ye will go forth, and grow fat as calves of the stall.
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 →