2 Samuel 22:1
David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
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2and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:30Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
1 Samuel 23:14David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
1 Samuel 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
2 Samuel 22:49who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
Psalms 18:18They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:1
This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms ( Ps. xviii. ) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his own closed and his own harp; but there we have it as it was afterwards delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church, a second edition with some amendments; for, though it was calculated primarily for David's case, yet it might indifferently serve the devotion of others, in giving thanks for their deliverances; or… Read the whole commentary →