2 Samuel 22:7
In 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!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6the meshes of hades, had surrounded me,—the snares of death had confronted me,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:28Yet wilt thou turn unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Yahweh my God,—to hearken unto the cry, and unto the prayer, wherewith thy servant doth pray before thee to-day;
Psalms 27:4One thing, have I asked of Yahweh, That, will I seek to secure,—That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, To view the delightfulness of Yahweh, And to contemplate in his temple.
Psalms 34:15The eyes of Yahweh, are towards the righteous, And, his ears, towards their cry for help:
Psalms 116:4But, on the Name of Yahweh, I called—I beseech thee, Yahweh, deliver my soul.
Jonah 2:4And, I, said, I am driven out from before thine eyes,—Yet will I again have regard unto thy holy temple:
Habakkuk 2:20Howbeit, Yahweh, is in his holy temple,—Hush before him, all the earth.
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 →