2 Samuel 22:26-36

26 "¹With the kind You show Yourself kind, With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

27 ²With the pure You show Yourself pure, ³And with the perverted You show Yourself astute.

28 "⁴And You save an afflicted people; ⁵But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase.

29 "⁶For You are my lamp, O LORD; And the LORD illumines my darkness.

30 "⁷For by You I can run upon a troop; By my God I can leap over a wall.

31 "⁸As for God, His way is blameless; ⁹The word of the LORD is tested; ¹⁰He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

32 "¹¹For who is God, besides the LORD? ¹²And who is a rock, besides our God?

33 "¹³God is my strong fortress; And He sets the blameless in His way.

34 "¹⁴He makes my feet like hinds' feet, ¹⁵And sets me on my high places.

35 "¹⁶He trains my hands for battle, ¹⁷So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

36 "You have also given me ¹⁸the shield of Your salvation, And Your help makes me great.

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2 Samuel 22:26-36 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

Cross References 18

1. Matthew 5:7
2. Matthew 5:8; 1 John 3:3
3. Leviticus 26:23, 24; Romans 1:28
4. Exodus 3:7, 8; Psalms 72:12, 13
5. Is 2:11, 12, 17; Isaiah 5:15
6. 2 Samuel 21:17; 1 Kings 11:36; Psalms 27:1
7. 2 Samuel 5:6-8
8. Deuteronomy 32:4; Matthew 5:48
9. Psalms 12:6; Psalms 119:140; Proverbs 30:5
10. 2 Samuel 22:3; Psalms 84:9
11. 1 Samuel 2:2
12. 2 Samuel 22:2
13. 2 Samuel 22:2; Psalms 31:3, 4
14. 2 Samuel 2:18; Habakkuk 3:19
15. Deuteronomy 32:13
16. Psalms 144:1
17. Job 20:24
18. Ephesians 6:16, 17

Footnotes 12

[a]. Or "loyal"
[b]. Or "loyal"
[c]. Lit "complete;" or "having integrity"
[d]. Lit "complete;" or "having integrity"
[e]. Lit "twisted"
[f]. Or "crush a troop"
[g]. Lit "complete;" or "having integrity"
[h]. Or "sets free"
[i]. Lit "complete;" or "having integrity"
[j]. Another reading is "my"
[k]. Another reading is "His"
[l]. Lit "answering"