2 Samuel 22:1 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: MC VC

2 Samuel 22:2 And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 8 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:3 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. 10 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; MC VC

2 Samuel 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; MC VC

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. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 4 I MC VC

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. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:14 The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. 2 I MC VC

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. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; MC VC

2 Samuel 22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:25 Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. 6 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:29 For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness. 11 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:32 For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God? 6 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. 5 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. 7 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:47 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. 4 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. MC VC

2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. 12 I MC VC

2 Samuel 22:51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:2 The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 2 I MC VC

2 Samuel 23:7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: MC VC

2 Samuel 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! MC VC

2 Samuel 23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: MC VC

2 Samuel 23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. MC VC

2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, MC VC

2 Samuel 23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. MC VC