2 Samuel 22:2

_AND HE SAID, THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER;_ He said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. This redundancy of images was intended to symbolize David's very strong sense of security in God. х_ CALª`IY_ (H5553), my rock.] This word, from which was derived Sela, the ancient name of Petra (hewn out of, and imbedded among, rocks), denotes not only a rock, but also excavations or fissures in the rock, so numerous in the mountain districts of Palestine that the Israelites at various periods of their early history (Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 24:22) sought shelter there from foreign aggression. David's own personnel

EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, that the objections taken by one or two critics serve only to give us greater security by reminding us that the other side has been carefully argued. The differences between its form here and in the Book of Psalms suggest many important considerations with regard to textual criticism. From the absence of manuscripts, we have very scanty means of judging of the correctness of the ordinary Hebrew text. We have, indeed, abundant proof that the Jews took extreme care of their sacred text in the early centuries of our era; but we nevertheless find, most frequently in names, mistakes which have arisen from the care

AND HE SAID, THE LORD [IS] MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER. Psalms 18:2....

2. DAVID'S SONG OF DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (2 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. The sorrows of the past (2 Samuel 22:5) 3. God's presence and intervention (2 Samuel 22:8) 4. Reward and approval (2 Samuel 22:21) 5. The judgment of the enemies (2 Samuel 22:29) 6. The exaltation above the adversaries (2 Samuel 22:44) 7. The praise of Jehovah ...

1 SAMUEL 22. PSALMS 18. This poem is dealt with in the commentary on the Psalms (Psalms book comments, and Psalms 18 chapter comments.)....

ROCK. Hebrew. _sela_. a shadow, or shelter. First occurrence....

The imagery, by which David describes so emphatically all that Jehovah had been to him as a Deliverer from his enemies, is derived from the experiences of his warlike life, and particularly of his flight from Saul. The CLIFF (1 Samuel 23:25; 1 Samuel 23:28) where he had escaped from Saul, the STRONG-HOLD in the wilderness of Judah or the fastnesses of Engedi (1 Samuel 23:14; 1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 23:29), "the rocks of the wild goats" (1 Samuel 24:2

AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD—THIS SONG— As this fine poem of David's occurs in the book of Psalms, we shall not make any remark upon it till we come to its proper place. See Psalms 18....

3. David's Song, 2 Samuel 22:1-51. _The Lord's Deliverance._ 2 Samuel 22:1-20 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: 2 And he said, The Lord _is_ my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 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. 4 I will call on the Lord, _who is_ worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 the sorrows of hell comp

22:2 rock, (f-7) High rock....