Psalms 18:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

Psalms 18:5 —

Old words in this verse

prevent: — go before, come ahead of.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Acts 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Psalms 88:3-8
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …
Psalms 88:15-17
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Death Gehenna Hades Hell Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-19)

The title gives us the occasion of penning this psalm; we had it before (2 Sam. 22:1), only here we are told that the psalm was delivered to the chief musician, or precentor, in the temple-songs. Note, The private compositions of good men, designed by them for their own use, may be serviceable to the public, that others may not only borrow light from their candle, but heat from their fire. Example…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. death--and hell (compare Psa 16:10) are personified as man’s great enemies (compare Re 20:13, 14). prevented--encountered me, crossed my path, and endangered my safety. He does not mean he was in their power.