2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him in its grip.
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 →