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2 Samuel 22:29
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2 Samuel 22:29
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For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
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2 Samuel 22:29 Meaning and Commentary
2 Samuel 22:29
For thou [art] my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my
darkness.] (
See Gill on
Psalms 18:28
).
Taken from
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Samuel 22:29 In-Context
27
with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
28
You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
30
For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
31
This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
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1.
Job 29:3
;
Psalms 27:1
; [
2 Samuel 21:17
]
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.