2 Samuel 22:6

The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me:

Leeser Tanakh

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 encompassed me, the floods of destruction made me afraid;

7[When] in my distress I called upon the Lord, and to my God I cried; and he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint [entered] into his ears.

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Cross References

Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and if they be entangled in the cords of affliction:

Psalms 116:3The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow:

Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly.

Proverbs 14:27The fear of the Lord is the source of life, [teaching] to avoid 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 →

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