2 Samuel 22:47
Let the Lord liue, and blessed be my strength: and God, euen the force of my saluation be exalted.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
In Context
46Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.
48It is God that giueth me power to reuenge me, and subdue the people vnder me,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is no gods with me: I kill, and giue life: I wound, and I make whole: neither is there any that can deliuer out of mine hand.
2 Samuel 22:3God is my strength, in him will I trust: my shielde, and the horne of my saluation, my hie tower and my refuge: my Sauiour, thou hast saued me from violence.
Psalms 89:26He shall cry vnto mee, Thou art my Father, my God and the rocke of my saluation.
Luke 1:47And my spirite reioyceth in God my Sauiour.
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 →