2 Samuel 22:29
For, thou, wast my lamp, O Yahweh,—and, Yahweh, enlightened my darkness;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
28And, a patient people, thou didst save,—but, thine eyes, were on the lofty—thou layedst them low;
30For, by thee, I ran through a troop,—by my God, I leapt over a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;
Psalms 18:28For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;
Psalms 84:11For, a sun and shield, is Yahweh God,—Grace and glory, will Yahweh give, He will not withhold what is good, from them who walk without blame.
Psalms 112:4Risen—in darkness, is light to the upright, The gracious and compassionate and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19Thou shalt no more have the sun, for light by day, neither for brightness, shall the moon, give light unto thee,—But Yahweh shall become thine age-abiding light, And thy God thine adorning:
Malachi 4:2So shall the sun of righteousness, arise to you who revere my Name, with healing in his wings,—and ye shall come forth and leap for joy like calves let loose from the stall;
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 →