8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
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And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy - Hast not delivered me into his hand, or into his power. See the margin 1-Samuel 17:46; 1-Samuel 24:18; 1-Samuel 26:8.
Thou hast set my feet in a large room - In a large place. Thou hast made me free, or set me at liberty. See Psalm 4:1, note; Psalm 18:19, note; Psalm 18:36, note.
Thou hast set my foot in a large room - Many hair-breadth escapes David had for his life; at that time especially when, playing before Saul, the furious king took a spear and endeavored to pierce him through the body, but he escaped and got to the deserts. Here God, who had saved his life, set his feet in a large room. The seventh and eighth verses speak of what God had done previously for him.
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a (e) large room.
(e) Largeness signifies comfort, as straitness, sorrow and peril.
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy,.... When in Keilah, in the wilderness of Ziph, and Maon, and encompassed about by Saul and his army, 1-Samuel 23:7; nor does the Lord suffer his people to be shut up under the power of sin and Satan, so that they cannot come forth in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty: but he brings their souls out of prison, that they may praise his name;
thou hast set my feet in a large room; at full liberty from his enemies; Saul and his army being called off from pursuing him, by tidings of an invasion by the Philistines, 1-Samuel 23:27; and this is the case of the saints when they are brought to Christ, to walk by faith at large on him; when grace is drawn forth into exercise, and spiritual knowledge is increased, and they are delivered from their enemies; or, however, can look upon them as conquered ones, and are sure of victory over them, and at last of an entire deliverance from them; see Psalm 4:1.
shut me up . . . enemy--abandon to (1-Samuel 23:11).
large room--place of safety (compare Psalm 18:19).
Room - Made way for me to escape, when I was encompassed by them.
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