2 Samuel 22:6
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
World English Bible Classic
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 surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Cross References
Job 36:8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Psalms 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Proverbs 5:22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Proverbs 14:27The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.
Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should 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 →