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Literal Standard Version

2 Samuel 22:17

He sends from above—He takes me, || He draws me out of many waters.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Water;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Moses;   Water;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Poetry;   Salvation, Saviour;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel first and second books of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafį¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He reached down from on highand took hold of me;he pulled me out of deep water.
Hebrew Names Version
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
King James Version
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Lexham English Bible
He sent from a high position and took me; he drew me from mighty waters.
English Standard Version
"He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
New Century Version
"The Lord reached down from above and took me; he pulled me from the deep water.
New English Translation
He reached down from above and grabbed me; he pulled me from the surging water.
Amplified Bible
"He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of great waters.
New American Standard Bible
"He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He sent from aboue, and tooke me: hee drewe me out of many waters.
Legacy Standard Bible
He sent from on high, He took me;He drew me out of many waters.
Contemporary English Version
You reached down from heaven, and you lifted me from deep in the ocean.
Complete Jewish Bible
"He sent from on high, he took me and pulled me out of deep water;
Darby Translation
He reached forth from above, he took me, He drew me out of great waters;
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord reached down from above and grabbed me. He pulled me from the deep water.
George Lamsa Translation
He sent from above and took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Good News Translation
The Lord reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me out of the deep waters.
Literal Translation
He sent from above; He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sent downe from aboue, and receaued me, and drue me out of many waters.
American Standard Version
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
Bible in Basic English
He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He sent from aboue and toke me: he drew me out of many waters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters;
King James Version (1611)
He sent from aboue, he tooke me: he drew me out of many waters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He sent from above and took me; he drew me out of many waters.
English Revised Version
He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Berean Standard Bible
He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He sente fro heuene, and took me; and drow me out of manye watris.
Young's Literal Translation
He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.
Update Bible Version
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
Webster's Bible Translation
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
World English Bible
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
New King James Version
"He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters.
New Living Translation
"He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters.
New Life Bible
"He sent from above. He took me. He pulled me out of many waters.
New Revised Standard
He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of mighty waters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He sent from on high, he took me, - he drew me out of many waters;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.
Revised Standard Version
"He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
THE MESSAGE
But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

Contextual Overview

2and he says: "YHWH [is] my rock, || And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me, 3My God [is] my rock—I take refuge in Him; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, || My high tower, and my refuge! My Savior, You save me from violence! 4I call on YHWH, [who is worthy] to be praised: And I am saved from my enemies. 5When the breakers of death surrounded me, || The streams of the worthless terrify me, 6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || The snares of death have been before me. 7In my adversity I call on YHWH, || And I call to my God, || And He hears my voice from His temple, || And my cry [is] in His ears, 8And the earth shakes and trembles, || Foundations of the heavens are troubled, || And are shaken, for He has wrath! 9Smoke has gone up by His nostrils, || And fire devours from His mouth; Brands have been kindled by it. 10And He inclines the heavens and comes down, || And thick darkness [is] under His feet. 11And He rides on a cherub and flies, || And is seen on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent: Psalms 18:16, Psalms 144:7

he drew: Psalms 32:6, Psalms 59:1, Psalms 59:2, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 124:4, Psalms 124:5, Psalms 130:1, Isaiah 43:2, Lamentations 3:54, Revelation 17:15

many: or, great

Reciprocal: Psalms 46:1 - a very

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
Genesis 15:5
and He brings him out outside and says, "Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them"; and He says to him, "Thus is your seed."
Genesis 17:6
and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.
Genesis 22:1
And it comes to pass after these things that God has tried Abraham and says to him, "Abraham"; and he says, "Here I [am]."
Genesis 22:2
And He says, "Now take your son, your only one, whom you have loved, even Isaac, and go for yourself to the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak to you."
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham says, "God provides for Himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son"; and they go on both of them together.
Genesis 22:9
And they come to the place of which God has spoken to him, and there Abraham builds the altar, and arranges the wood, and binds his son Isaac, and places him on the altar above the wood;
Genesis 22:10
and Abraham puts forth his hand, and takes the knife—to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. :-.


 
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