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2 Samuel 22:19

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

They prevented me in the day of my calamity, х yªqadmuniy (H6923)] - they surprised me (see the notes at last clause of 2 Samuel 22:6). "In the day of my calamity" means during his persecution, when he more than once ran imminent risk of being captured or killed by surprise-when the missile was aimed at him by Saul (1 Samuel 18:11), when he was rescued by the artifice of his wife (1 Samuel 19:11), when the Ziphites betrayed him (1 Samuel 23:19), and when Saul entered the cave where David was hidden (1 Samuel 24:3).

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See also 2 Samuel 22:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PREVENTED. got before....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _They prevented me_ THEY ENCOUNTERED ME, the same word as in 2 Samuel 22:6, meaning _to meet with hostile intention. Prevent_is used in a sense which illustrates the transition from the original meani...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PSALM This beautiful poem has also been preserved as the Eighteenth Psalm. It probably belongs to the earlier portion of David's reign, when his conquests and God's promise (2 Sa...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְקַדְּמֻ֖נִי בְּ יֹ֣ום אֵידִ֑י וַ יְהִ֧י יְה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They (k) prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. (k) I was so beset, that all means seemed to fail....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Samuel 22:19 confronted H6923 (H8762) day H3117 calamity H343 LORD H3068 support H4937 prevented -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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