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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22:20

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 22 This chapter contains a song or psalm, the same with the eighteenth psalm, and which, according to Jarchi, was composed by David in his old age, and, as Kimchi says, at the end or close of his days; but Abarbinel is of opinion that it was written in his youthful time, in the midst of his troubles, and was sung by him as often as he had a deliverance from any; and...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. [See comments on Psalms 18:19].

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms (Ps. xviii.) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his own closed and his own harp; but there we have it as it was afterwards delivered to the chief musician for the service of the church, a second edition with some amendments; for, though it was calculated primarily...