Week 17 2 Samuel 22 (& Psalm 18)
My bible added its own title at the top of 2 Samuel 22: “David’s Song of Praise”. Right underneath it added this: 22:1-51pp – Ps. 18:1-50. (I had to flip back to the front of the bible. The abbreviation list said that pp meant parallel passage.) Hmmm.
2 Samuel 22:1 said: David sang this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. I jumped over to Psalm 18. The subtitle there said that David: ‘sang the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul’.
I read the first three verses of Psalm 18 then paged back and read 2 Samuel 22:2-4. They sounded similar. Very similar. I found a second bible and opened it to Psalm 18 and started reading and comparing it with 2 Samuel 22. I kept my place in one bible using the edge of a plastic seed-packet and following the column of the other bible with my finger. Back-and-forth…line-by-line. The 50-verses in the one passage pretty much echoed the 50-verses in the other. Not 100% exactly the same word-for-word. But about 98% the same. A couple of word-changes. A couple of additions or omissions. A couple of lines flip-flopped. The same psalm.
The first week of April I looked at David’s On-the-Run psalms. I missed 18. Maybe I should have made it the concluding one. David’s After Being On-the-Run Psalm.
Note: quote from 2 Samuel 22:1 (NIV)