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Earthquake and storm are regarded as the visible manifestations of Divine Power: and therefore God’s interposition for the deliverance of His servant from the perils that surrounded him is described as accompanied by terrible phenomena in nature.
And the Lord said, “ There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death. ” 2 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but a of the remnant of the Amorites.
22 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 2 He said, my savior; you save me from violence. and I am saved from my enemies. the snares of death confronted me. to my God I called. and my cry came to his ears.
3. (2 Samuel 22:5-20) David’s deliverance comes from God. “When the waves of death surrounded me, The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears.
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 Samuel 22:1–20 “I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies” (v. 4). Continuing his concluding section regarding the life and reign of David, the author of 2 Samuel features in chapter 22 what the ESV calls “David’s Song of Deliverance.”
David Guzik commentary on 2 Samuel 22 describes David’s Psalm of Praise, where he praises God for his deliverance. This psalm is the same as Psalm 18.
