2 Samuel 22:1
And David speaks the words of this song to YHWH in the day YHWH has delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
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2and he says: “YHWH [is] my rock, || And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:30And Moses speaks the words of this song in the ears of all the assembly of Israel, until their completion:
1 Samuel 23:14And David abides in the wilderness, in fortresses, and abides in the hill-country, in the wilderness of Ziph; and Saul seeks him [for] all the days, and God has not given him into his hand.
1 Samuel 25:29And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with your God YHWH; as for the soul of your enemies, He slings them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.
1 Samuel 27:1And David says to his heart, “Now I am consumed by the hand of Saul one day; there is nothing better for me than that I diligently escape to the land of the Philistines, and Saul has been despairing of me—of seeking me anymore in all the border of Israel, and I have escaped out of his hand.”
2 Samuel 22:49And bringing me forth from my enemies, || Indeed, You raise me up above my withstanders. You deliver me from a man of violence.
Psalms 18:18They go before me in a day of my calamity || And YHWH is for a support to me.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:1
This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms ( Ps. xviii. ) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his own closed and his own harp; but there we have it as it was afterwards delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church, a second edition with some amendments; for, though it was calculated primarily for David's case, yet it might indifferently serve the devotion of others, in giving thanks for their deliverances; or… Read the whole commentary →