Psalms 18:4

David describes being surrounded by the cords of death and overwhelming floods of destruction. It matters because it vividly portrays the depth of danger from which God rescued him.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
• Matt 27:24–25So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
• 2 Cor 1:9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
• Isa 53:3–4He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Ps 22:12–13Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
• Jonah 2:2–7He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
• Ps 124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
• Matt 26:47While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
• 2 Sam 22:5–6For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
• Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
• Matt 27:39–44Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
• Matt 26:38–39Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
• Acts 21:30All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
• Isa 13:8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
• Matt 26:55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

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