Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 22:17
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
17 21. Jehovah’s deliverance of his servant for his faithfulness
17. He sent from above ] He reached forth from on high: stretched out His hand and caught hold of the sinking man, and drew him out of the floods of calamity which were engulfing him. Cp. 2Sa 22:5; Psa 144:7.
drew me ] A word found elsewhere only in Exo 2:10, and suggesting a parallel, as though David would say, ‘He drew me out of the great waters of distress, as He drew Moses out of the waters of the Nile, to be the deliverer of His people.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
2Sa 22:17
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
Progress from above
All real progress is from God. There is no little truth in the observation of Mephistopheles that the human mind merely advances spirally, and reverts to a spot close to its origin. Dr. R. D. Hitch-cock says: In all human advancement, the motive power has not been a force in man, lifting him upward, or on the earthward side, driving him onward, but the movement has been along an inclined plane, due to an engine drawing from the top. (A. T. Pierson, D. D.)
Christ a deliverer
I have heard of the following story of a Chinaman who had become a disciple of the Lord Jesus. In explaining to others what Christ had done for him, he put it thus: It seemed as if I was at the bottom of a pit in great distress crying for help. Buddha passed and said, If you crawl up, never get clown again. Confucius then came to the pits mouth, and said, I have a rope at home that will go two-thirds down the pit, if you can crawl up one-third, but he left me; then the Lord Jesus, hearing my cry, came quickly to my rescue, put His hand down and helped me out of the pit; put my feet upon a rock, and established my goings; that is what Christ has done for me. (Newton Jones.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. [See comments on Ps 18:16].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
17 He reached out of the height, He laid hold of me;
Drew me out of great waters:
18 Saved me from my enemy strong;
From my haters, because they were too strong for me.
19 They fell upon me in my day of calamity:
Then Jehovah became my stay,
20 And led me out into a broad place;
Delivered me, because He had pleasure in me.
The Lord stretched His hand from the height into the deep abysses, which had been uncovered through the threatening of the wrath of God, and drew out the sinking man. without is used to denote the stretching out of the hand, and in the sense of reaching out to a thing (as in 2Sa 6:6). (great waters) does not refer to the enemy, but to the calamities and dangers (waves of death and streams of Belial, 2Sa 22:5) into which the enemies of the Psalmist had plunged him. , from (Exo 2:10), from which the name of Moses was derived, to whom there is probably an allusion made. As Moses was taken out of the waters of the Nile, so David was taken out of great (many) waters. This deliverance is still further depicted in a more literal terms in 2Sa 22:18. , my enemy strong, poetical for my strong enemy, does not refer to one single enemy, namely Saul; but, as the parallel “my haters” shows, is a poetical personification of all his enemies. They were stronger than David, therefore the Lord had to deliver him with an almighty hand. The “ day of calamity ” in which the enemy fell upon him ( : see at 2Sa 22:6) was the time when David wandered about in the desert helpless and homeless, fleeing from the pursuit of Saul. The Lord was then his support, or a staff on which he could support himself (vid., Psa 23:4), and led him out of the strait into the broad, i.e., into a broad space where he could move freely, because God had pleasure in him, and had chosen him in His grace to be His servant. This reason for his deliverance is carried out still further in what follows.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
17. Sends from the height Or, reaches forth his hand from the lofty seat above the clouds, where his Majesty is represented as appearing.
Great waters Those billows of death and torrents of wickedness by which, according to 2Sa 22:5, he was surrounded.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
sent: Psa 18:16, Psa 144:7
he drew: Psa 32:6, Psa 59:1, Psa 59:2, Psa 93:3, Psa 93:4, Psa 124:4, Psa 124:5, Psa 130:1, Isa 43:2, Lam 3:54, Rev 17:15
many: or, great
Reciprocal: Psa 46:1 – a very