2 Samuel 22:16
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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In Context
15He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them.
17He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Cross References
Exodus 15:8With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Job 38:11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoulder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 114:3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
Habakkuk 3:8Was the LORD displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
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 →