Psalms 18:16 - Exposition

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. While destruction thus came upon David's enemies ( Psalms 18:12-14 ), God's protecting hand was stretched out to save David himself, who was carefully "taken" and tenderly "drawn" forth from among the "many waters," i.e. the dangers and difficulties which threatened him. Some commentators see in the words used—"he sent , he took me, he drew me"—a tacit reference to Exodus 2:5 , Exodus 2:10 , and, by implication, a sort of parallel between the deliverance of David from his foes and that of Moses from the waters of the Nile (Kay, Hengstenberg, 'Speaker's Commentary').