2 Samuel 22:20

into a large place The opposite of the straitsof peril. Cp. 2 Samuel 22:37; Psalms 31:8.

because he delighted in me This was the ground of God's deliverance, and it now becomes the leading thought of the Psalm. Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 15:26; Psalms 22:8; and also Matthew 3:17, where the Greek word for "I am well pleased" is the same as that used in the Sept. (εὐδοκεῖν). The reference becomes doubly significant if it is borne in mind that the theocratic king was called God's son (ch. 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalms 2:7). See Introd. p. 43.