2 Samuel 22:6
The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In Context
5For the pangs of death haue compassed me: the floods of vngodlinesse haue made mee afrayd.
Cross References
Job 36:8And if they bee bound in fetters and tyed with the cordes of affliction,
Psalms 116:3When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.
Proverbs 5:22His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.
Proverbs 14:27The feare of the Lord is as a welspring of life, to auoyde the snares of death.
Acts 2:24Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.
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 →