2 Samuel 22:6

The pangs of death surrounded me, 1 The agonies of death prevented me. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

In Context

5For the troubles of death compassed me, 1 The floods of iniquity amazed me: 1

7When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, 1 And will cry to my God, 1 And he shall hear my voice out of his temple, 1 And my cry shall come into his ears. 1

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Cross References

Job 36:8But they that are bound in fetters 1 Shall be holden in cords of poverty. 1

Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, 1 And every one is bound in the chains of his own sins. 1

Proverbs 14:27The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; 1 And it causes men to turn aside from the snare of death. 1

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 →

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