The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.
The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
2 Samuel — David's reign in three movements — rise, fall, consequences — with the Davidic covenant (ch. 7) as the vertical spine down the centre. A covenant held through both rise and fall; a throne established for ever.
Voices1
The floods of Belial, the wicked one, and his wicked instruments, made him afraid; he trembled to see not only earth, but death and hell, in arms against him. (2.) That his deliverance was an answer to prayer,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Jonah 2:2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
leads to
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
Through
Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
leads to
By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches9
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.
But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
