2 Samuel 22:7
[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.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
6The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me:
Cross References
1 Kings 8:28Yet wilt thou turn thy regard unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen unto the entreaty and unto the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee today;
Psalms 27:4One thing have I asked of the Lord, that I will seek for: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the loveliness of the Lord, and to be every morning early in his temple.
Psalms 34:15(34:16) The eyes of the Lord are directed unto the righteous, and his ears unto their cry.
Psalms 116:4I then called on the name of the Lord, I beseech thee, O Lord, release my soul.
Jonah 2:4(2:5) And I thought indeed, I am driven out from before thy eyes: yet I again shall look toward thy holy temple.
Habakkuk 2:20But the Lord is in his holy temple: be silent before him all the earth.
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 →