2 Samuel 22:31
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried; he is a shield unto all them that trust in him.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
30For by thee I run upon a troop: by my God do I leap over a wall.
32For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are judgment: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
Nehemiah 9:8and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, even to give it unto his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.
Psalms 2:7I will tell of the decree: the LORD said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.
Psalms 18:30As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried; he is a shield unto all them that trust in him.
Psalms 84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalms 119:140Thy word is very pure; therefore thy servant loveth 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 →