2 Samuel 22:31
As for God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried; he is a shield to all that trust in him.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
30For [aided] by thee I run through a troop: [helped] by my God I leap over a wall.
32For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are just: the God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Nehemiah 9:8And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Emorites, and the Perizittes, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed: and thou hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.
Psalms 2:7I will announce the decree, the Lord hath said unto me, “My son art thou: I have indeed this day begotten thee.
Psalms 18:30(18:31) As for God,—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.
Psalms 84:9(84:10) [Thou,] our shield, behold, O God, and look upon the face of thy anointed.
Psalms 119:140Thy promise is greatly refined, and thy servant loveth it.
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 →