2 Samuel 22:29
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You are my lamp, LORD; the LORD illumines my darkness.
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With you I can charge into battle; with my God I can leap over a wall.
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God! His way is perfect; the LORD's word is tried and true. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
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Now really, who is divine except the LORD? And who is a rock except our God?
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Only God! My mighty fortress, who makes my way perfect,
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who makes my step as sure as the deer's, who lets me stand securely on the heights,
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who trains my hands for war so my arms can bend a bronze bow.
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You've given me the shield of your salvation; your help has made me great.
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You've let me walk fast and safe, without even twisting an ankle.
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I chased my enemies and destroyed them! I didn't come home until I finished them off.
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I ate them up! I struck them down! They couldn't get up; they fell under my feet.
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2 Samuel 22:29-39 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 22
This chapter contains a song or psalm, the same with the eighteenth psalm, and which, according to Jarchi, was composed by David in his old age, and, as Kimchi says, at the end or close of his days; but Abarbinel is of opinion that it was written in his youthful time, in the midst of his troubles, and was sung by him as often as he had a deliverance from any; and which may account for the several variations in it from the eighteenth psalm, which, the same writer observes, are seventy four; and are not to be ascribed to the difference of copies, or neglect of copiers: and very probably, towards the close of his days, he revised it, and made it fit for general use, and sent it with the rest of his psalms to the chief musician; but the particular consideration of it, and of the differences in it from Ps 18:1-50 are referred to the exposition of that book in its course.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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