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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 2 Samuel 22

Chapter 22

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:

David

Psalms 50:14 103:1-6 116:1-19

words

Exodus 15:1 Judges 5:1

in

49 Psalms 18:1 *title; Psalms 34:19 Isaiah 12:1-6 2 Corinthians 1:10 2 Timothy 4:18 Revelation 7:9-17

and out

1 Samuel 23:14 24:15 25:29 26:24 27:1

And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

Deuteronomy 32:4 1 Samuel 2:2 Psalms 18:2-50 31:3 42:9 71:3 91:2 144:2 Matthew 16:18

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

in him

Hebrews 2:13

shield

Genesis 15:1 Deuteronomy 33:29 Psalms 3:3 5:12 28:7 84:9,11 115:9-11 Proverbs 30:5

the horn

1 Samuel 2:1 Luke 1:69

my high

51 Psalms 61:3 144:2 Proverbs 18:10

my refuge

Psalms 9:9 14:6 18:2 27:5 32:7 46:1,7,11 59:16 71:7 142:4 Isaiah 32:2 Jeremiah 16:9

my saviour

Isaiah 12:2 45:21 Luke 1:47,71 Titus 3:4,6

thou savest

49 Psalms 55:9 72:14 86:14 140:1,4,11

I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

I will

Psalms 116:2,4,13,17

worthy

Nehemiah 9:5 Psalms 18:3 66:2 106:2 148:1-4 Revelation 4:11 5:12

so

Psalms 34:6 50:15 55:16 56:9 57:1-3 Romans 10:13

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

waves

or, pangs.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

the floods

Psalms 18:4 69:14,15 93:3,4 Isaiah 59:19 Jeremiah 46:7,8 Revelation 12:15,16 Revelation 17:1,15

ungodly men

Heb. Belial.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

sorrows

or, cords.

Job 36:8 Psalms 18:5 116:3 140:5 Proverbs 5:22 Jonah 2:2 Acts 2:24

the snares

Proverbs 13:14 14:27

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

my distress

Psalms 116:4 120:1 Matthew 26:38,39 Luke 22:44 Hebrews 5:7

did hear

Exodus 3:7 Psalms 34:6,15-17

out

1 Kings 8:28-30 Psalms 18:6 27:4 Jonah 2:4,7 Habakkuk 2:20

my cry

James 5:4

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

the earth

Judges 5:4 Psalms 18:7 77:18 97:4 Habakkuk 3:6-11 Matthew 27:51 28:2 Acts 4:31

foundations

Job 26:11 Nahum 1:5

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

went

16 Exodus 15:7,8 19:18 24:17 Deuteronomy 32:22 Job 4:9 41:20,21 Psalms 18:8,15 Psalms 97:3-5 Isaiah 30:27,33 Jeremiah 5:14 15:14 Hebrews 12:29

out of his

Heb. by his, etc. coals.

Habakkuk 3:5

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

bowed

Psalms 144:5 Isaiah 64:1-3

darkness

Exodus 20:21 Deuteronomy 4:11 1 Kings 8:12 Psalms 97:2 104:3 Matthew 27:45 Luke 23:44,45

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

a cherub

Genesis 3:24 Exodus 25:19 1 Samuel 4:4 Psalms 18:10 68:17 80:1 99:1 Ezekiel 9:3 Ezekiel 10:2-14 Hebrews 1:14

upon the

Psalms 104:3 139:9

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

made

10 Psalms 18:11,12 27:5 97:2

dark waters

Heb. binding waters.

Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

coals of fire

Verse 14

The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

thundered

Exodus 19:6 Judges 5:20 1 Samuel 2:10 7:10 12:17,18 Job 37:2-5 40:9 Psalms 29:3-9 77:16-19 Isaiah 30:30 Ezekiel 10:5 Revelation 11:19

And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

arrows

Deuteronomy 32:23 Joshua 10:10 Psalms 7:12,13 18:14 45:5 144:6,7 Habakkuk 3:11

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

the channels

Exodus 14:21-27 15:8-10 Psalms 18:15-17 114:3-7

rebuking

Exodus 15:8 Job 38:11 Psalms 106:9 Nahum 1:4 Habakkuk 3:8-10 Matthew 8:26,27

nostrils

or, anger.

9 Psalms 74:1

He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

sent

Psalms 18:16 144:7

he drew

Psalms 32:6 59:1,2 93:3,4 124:4,5 130:1 Isaiah 43:2 Lamentations 3:54 Revelation 17:15

many

or, great.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

delivered

1 Psalms 3:7 56:9 2 Corinthians 1:10 2 Timothy 4:17

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

prevented

15:10-13 1 Samuel 19:11-17 23:26,27 Psalms 18:18,19 118:10-13 Matthew 27:39-44

the Lord

Psalms 71:20,21 Isaiah 26:19 50:10

He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

brought

Genesis 26:22 1 Chronicles 4:10 Psalms 31:8 118:5 Hosea 4:16

delighted

15:26 Psalms 22:8 147:11 149:4 Isaiah 42:1 Matthew 3:17 17:5 27:43 Acts 2:32-36

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

rewarded

25 1 Samuel 26:23 1 Kings 8:32 Psalms 7:3,4,8 18:20-25 19:11 1 Corinthians 15:58

cleanness

Job 17:9 Psalms 24:4 James 4:8

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

I have kept

Numbers 16:15 1 Samuel 12:3 Job 23:10-12 2 Corinthians 1:12

the ways

Genesis 18:19 Psalms 119:1 128:1 Proverbs 8:32

have not

Psalms 36:3 125:5 Zephaniah 1:6 John 15:10 Hebrews 10:38,39

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

For all

Psalms 119:6,86,128 Luke 1:6 John 15:14

judgments

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 7:12 Psalms 19:8,9 119:13,30,102

I did not

Deuteronomy 8:11

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

upright

Genesis 6:9 17:1 Job 1:1 Psalms 51:6 84:11 John 1:47 2 Corinthians 5:11

before him

Heb. to him. kept.

Proverbs 4:23 Hebrews 12:1

Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

recompensed

21 Isaiah 3:10 Romans 2:7,8 2 Corinthians 5:10

in his eye sight

Heb. before his eyes.

Proverbs 5:21

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

the merciful

Matthew 5:7 James 2:13

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

the pure

Matthew 5:8

forward

Leviticus 26:23-28 Deuteronomy 28:58-61 Psalms 125:5

shew thyself unsavoury

or, wrestle.

Exodus 18:11 Psalms 18:26 Isaiah 45:9

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

afflicted

Exodus 3:7,8 Psalms 12:5 72:12,13 140:12 Isaiah 61:1-3 63:9 Matthew 5:3

but thine

Exodus 9:14-17 10:3 18:11 Job 40:11,12 Psalms 138:6 Proverbs 21:4 Isaiah 2:11 Isaiah 5:15 37:23,28,29 Daniel 4:37 James 4:6,7 1 Peter 5:5,6

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

lamp

or, candle.

Job 29:3 Psalms 27:1 84:11 John 8:12 Revelation 21:23

lighten

Psalms 4:6 18:28 97:11 112:4 Isaiah 50:10 60:19,20 Micah 7:9 Malachi 4:2 John 12:46

For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

run through

or, broken.

Psalms 18:29 118:10-12 Romans 8:37 Philippians 4:13

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

his way

Deuteronomy 32:4 Daniel 4:37 Matthew 5:48 Revelation 15:3

the word

Psalms 12:6 18:30 119:140 Proverbs 30:5

tried

or, refined. a buckler.

3 Psalms 35:2 91:4 2:7

For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

For who

Deuteronomy 32:31,39 1 Samuel 2:2 Isaiah 44:6,8 45:5,6,21 Jeremiah 10:6,7,16

a rock

2,3

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

strength

Exodus 15:2 Psalms 18:32 27:1 28:7,8 31:4 46:1 Isaiah 41:10 Zechariah 10:12 2 Corinthians 12:9 Ephesians 6:10 Philippians 4:13

maketh

Heb. riddeth, or looseth. my way.

Hebrews 13:21

perfect

Deuteronomy 18:13 Job 22:3 Psalms 101:2,6 119:1

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

maketh

Heb. equalleth to. like hinds'.

2:18 Deuteronomy 33:25 Habakkuk 3:19

setteth

Deuteronomy 32:13 Isaiah 33:16 58:14

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

teacheth

Psalms 18:33,34 144:1

to war

Heb. for the war. a bow.

Psalms 46:9 Ezekiel 39:3,9,10

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

the shield

Genesis 15:1 Psalms 84:11 Ephesians 6:16

gentleness

Psalms 18:35

made me great

Heb. multiplied me.

Genesis 12:2 22:17 Psalms 115:14

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

enlarged

Psalms 4:1 18:36 Proverbs 4:12

feet

Heb. ankles.

1 Samuel 2:9 Psalms 17:5 94:18 121:3

I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

5:18-25 8:1,2,13,14 10:14 Psalms 21:8,9 Romans 8:37

And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

Psalms 18:37 110:1,5,6 118:10-12 Malachi 4:1,3

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

girded

1 Samuel 17:49-51 23:5 Psalms 18:32,39 Isaiah 45:5 Colossians 1:11

them

Psalms 44:5 144:2

subdued

Heb. caused to bow.

Isaiah 60:14 Revelation 5:9

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

necks

Genesis 49:8 Exodus 23:27 Joshua 10:24 Psalms 18:40,41

I might

Psalms 21:8,9 Luke 19:14,27 2 Thessalonians 1:8,9

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

unto the Lord

1 Samuel 28:6 Job 27:9 Proverbs 1:28 Isaiah 1:15 Ezekiel 20:3 Micah 3:4 Matthew 7:22,23 Luke 13:25,26

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

as small

2 Kings 13:7 Psalms 35:5 Daniel 2:35 Malachi 4:1

as the mire

Psalms 18:42 Isaiah 10:6 Micah 7:10 Zechariah 10:5

did spread

Deuteronomy 32:26 Isaiah 26:15 Zechariah 2:6 Luke 21:24

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

delivered

3:1 5:1 18:6-8 19:9,14 20:1,2,22 Psalms 2:1-6 18:43 Acts 4:25-28 Acts 5:30,31

head

8:1-14 Deuteronomy 28:13 Psalms 2:8 60:8,9 72:8,9 110:6 Isaiah 60:12 Daniel 7:14 Romans 15:12 Revelation 11:15

a people

Isaiah 55:5 65:1 Hosea 2:23 Romans 9:25

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

Strangers

Heb. Sons of the stranger.

Isaiah 56:3,6

submit themselves

or, yield feigned obedience. Heb. lie.

Deuteronomy 33:29 Psalms 18:44,45 66:3 81:15 Acts 8:13,21-23

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

fade away

Isaiah 64:6 James 1:11

out

Isaiah 2:19,21 Amos 9:3 Micah 7:17

The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

Lord

Deuteronomy 32:39,40 Job 19:25

the rock of

Psalms 89:26 Luke 1:47

It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,

avengeth me

Heb. giveth avengement for me.

18:19,31 1 Samuel 25:30 Psalms 94:1

that bringeth

Psalms 110:1 144:2 1 Corinthians 15:25

And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

thou also

5:12 7:8,9 Numbers 24:7,17-19 1 Samuel 2:8 Psalms 18:48

the violent

Psalms 52:1 140:1

Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

among

Romans 15:9

I will sing

Psalms 18:49 145:1,2 146:1,2 Isaiah 12:1-6

He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

the tower

2 Psalms 3:3 21:1 48:3 89:26 91:2 144:10

his anointed

Psalms 18:50 89:20

seed

7:12,13 Psalms 18:50 89:29,36 Jeremiah 30:9 Luke 1:31-33 Revelation 11:15