2 Samuel 22:29
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
In Context
30For by thee I run upon a troop: by my God do I leap over a wall.
Cross References
Job 29:3When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
Psalms 18:28For thou wilt light my lamp: the LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalms 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Isaiah 60:19The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Malachi 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of 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 →