2 Samuel 22:29
Surely thou art my light, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkenes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.
30For by thee haue I broken through an hoste, and by my God haue I leaped ouer a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,
Psalms 18:28Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.
Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.
Psalms 112:4Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he is merciful and full of copassion and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19Thou shalt haue no more sunne to shine by day, neither shall the brightnesse of the moone shine vnto thee: for the Lord shall be thine euerlasting light, and thy God, thy glorie.
Malachi 4:2But vnto you that feare my Name, shall the sunne of righteousnesse arise, and health shall be vnder his wings, and ye shall goe forth, and growe vp as fat calues.
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 →