2 Samuel 22:17
He sends from above—He takes me, || He draws me out of many waters.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
In Context
18He delivers me from my strong enemy, || From those hating me, || For they were stronger than me.
Cross References
Exodus 2:10And the boy grows, and she brings him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calls his name Moses, and says, “Because I have drawn him from the water.”
Psalms 32:6For every saintly one prays this to You, || In the time to find [You]. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, || They do not come to him.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O YHWH, || Floods have lifted up their voice, || Floods lift up their breakers.
Psalms 130:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I have called You from the depths, YHWH.
Isaiah 43:2When you pass into waters, I [am] with you, || And into floods, they do not overflow you, || When you go into fire, you are not burned, || And a flame does not burn against you.
Revelation 17:15And he says to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;
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 →