2 Samuel 22:17-21

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. 2 Samuel 22:5; Psalms 144:7.

drew me A word found elsewhere only in Exodus 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."