2 Samuel 22:7

In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In Context

6The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

8Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:28Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;

Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 34:15The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Psalms 116:4Then I called on the LORD’s name: “LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

Jonah 2:4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

Habakkuk 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

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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