2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || The snares of death have been before me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5When the breakers of death surrounded me, || The streams of the worthless terrify me,
Cross References
Job 36:8And if prisoners in chains || They are captured with cords of affliction,
Psalms 116:3Cords of death have surrounded me, || And straits of Sheol have found me, || I find distress and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of YHWH [is] a fountain of life, || To turn aside from snares of death.
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having loosed the travails of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it;
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 →