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## 2 Samuel 22:8-20 in Context (Verses 5–23 KJV)
 
 [5 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/5) When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;**
 
 [6 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/6) The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/7) 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.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/8) Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/9) There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/10) He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness *was* under his feet.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/11) And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/12) And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, *and* thick clouds of the skies.*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/13) Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/14) The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/15) And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/16) 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.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/17) He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/18) He delivered me from my strong enemy, *and* from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/19) They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/20) He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/21) The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/22) For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/2-samuel/22/23) For all his judgments *were* before me: and *as for* his statutes, I did not depart from them.
 
[2 Samuel 21](/kjv/2-samuel/21) [2 Samuel 23](/kjv/2-samuel/23)

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