2 Samuel 22:36
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
In Context
35He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
37You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
Cross References
Genesis 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 22:17that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Ephesians 6:16above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
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 →