2 Samuel 22:6
The chevlei Sheol (cords of Sheol) encompassed me; 1 the snares of mavet confronted me; 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5When the waves of mavet (death) compassed me, 1 the floods of scoundrels overwhelm me; 1
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they be bound in chains, 1 and be held fast in chevlei oni (cords of affliction), 1
Psalms 116:3Chevlei mavet (pangs of death) encompassed me, 1 and the metzarei She'ol (confines, straitnesses of She'ol) have caught up with me and found me; 1 tzoros and yagon (sorrow) I found. 1
Proverbs 5:22His own avonot shall entrap the rashah himself, 1 and he shall be held fast by the cords of his chattat. 1
Proverbs 14:27The Yirat Hashem is a makor chayyim (fountain of life) 1 to turn one away from the snares of mavet. 1
Acts 2:24But in fact Hashem made Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to stand up alive again, having destroyed the Chevlei HaMavet, because it was impossible for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be held by Deathʼs ko'ach.
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 →