2 Samuel 22:1
And David speaketh to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah hath delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2and he saith: 'Jehovah [is] my rock, And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:30And Moses speaketh in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, till their completion: —
1 Samuel 23:14And David abideth in the wilderness, in fortresses, and abideth in the hill-country, in the wilderness of Ziph; and Saul seeketh him all the days, and God hath not given him into his hand.
1 Samuel 25:29And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.
1 Samuel 27:1And David saith unto his heart, 'Now am I consumed one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing for me better than that I diligently escape unto the land of the Philistines, and Saul hath been despairing of me — of seeking me any more in all the border of Israel, and I have escaped out of his hand.'
2 Samuel 22:49And bringing me forth from mine enemies, Yea, above my withstanders Thou raisest me up. From a man of violence Thou deliverest me.
Psalms 18:18They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:1
This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms ( Ps. xviii. ) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his own closed and his own harp; but there we have it as it was afterwards delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church, a second edition with some amendments; for, though it was calculated primarily for David's case, yet it might indifferently serve the devotion of others, in giving thanks for their deliverances; or… Read the whole commentary →