2 Samuel 22:18
He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
In Context
17He sent from aboue, and tooke me: hee drewe me out of many waters.
19They preuented me in the day of my calamitie, but the Lord was my stay,
Cross References
Psalms 3:7O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 56:9When I cry, then mine enemies shall turne backe: this I know, for God is with me.
2 Timothy 4:17Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully beleeued, and that al the Gentiles should heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the lion.
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 →