2 Samuel 22:6

the meshes of hades, had surrounded me,—the snares of death had confronted me,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

In Context

5When the breakers of death had encompassed me,—the torrents of perdition, made me afraid,—

7In my distress, called I on Yahweh, Yea, unto my God, did I call,—and he hearkened, out of his temple, unto my voice, and, my cry for help, was in his ears!

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Cross References

Job 36:8But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,

Psalms 116:3The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;

Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.

Proverbs 14:27The reverence of Yahweh, is a well-spring of life, that a man may avoid the snares of death.

Acts 2:24Whom, God, raised up, loosing the pangs of death, inasmuch as it was, not possible, for him to continue held fast by 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 →

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