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2 Samuel 22

2 Sam. 22:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When the γwaves
mishbar (Hebrew #4867)
a breaker (of the sea)
KJV usage: billow, wave.
Pronounce: mish-bawr'
Origin: from 7665
of death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
compassed
'aphaph (Hebrew #661)
to surround
KJV usage: compass.
Pronounce: aw-faf'
Origin: a primitive root
me, the floods
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
of δungodly men
bliya`al (Hebrew #1100)
without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness (often in connection with 376, 802, 1121, etc.)
KJV usage: Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.
Pronounce: bel-e-yah'-al
Origin: from 1097 and 3276
made me afraid
ba`ath (Hebrew #1204)
to fear
KJV usage: affright, be (make) afraid, terrify, trouble.
Pronounce: baw-ath'
Origin: a primitive root
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or, pangs.
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Belial.

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Ministry on This Verse

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waves.
or, pangs.
1 Thess. 5:3• 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
the floods.
Psa. 18:4• 4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 69:14‑15• 14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
 15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:14‑15)
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Psa. 93:3‑4• 3The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
 4The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. (Psa. 93:3‑4)
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Isa. 59:19• 19So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. (Isa. 59:19)
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Jer. 46:7‑8• 7Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
 8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. (Jer. 46:7‑8)
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Rev. 12:15‑16• 15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
 16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (Rev. 12:15‑16)
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Rev. 17:1,15• 1And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
 15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. (Rev. 17:1,15)
ungodly men.
Heb. Belial.
• {v.5-6} David could only in feeble measure realize these words which make us think of the agony at Gethsemane. (“The Song of Deliverance: 2 Samuel 22” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.