2 Samuel 22:20
And He brings me out to a large place, || He draws me out for He delighted in me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
In Context
19They are before me in a day of my calamity, || And YHWH is my support,
Cross References
Genesis 26:22And he removes from there, and digs another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calls its name “Enlargements,” and says, “For—now has YHWH given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.”
1 Chronicles 4:10And Jabez calls to the God of Israel, saying, “If blessing You bless me, then You have made my border great, and Your hand has been with me, and You have kept [me] from evil—not to grieve me”; and God brings in that which he asked.
Psalms 31:8And You have not shut me up, || Into the hand of an enemy, || You have caused my feet to stand in a broad place.
Psalms 118:5I called YAH from the narrow place, || YAH answered me in a broad place.
Psalms 149:4For YHWH is pleased with His people, || He beautifies the humble with salvation.
Hosea 4:16For Israel has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, || Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.
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 →