He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
He brought me forth also into a large place, х lamerchaab (H4800)] - into the wide place, into the breadth; i:e., He delivered me out of straits. This word is often used (cf. Psalms 4:2) to denote freedom and deliverance, in opposition to a state of confinement and difficulty (Gesenius). And thus the words, as applied to David, may be taken either in a literal or a metaphorical sense;-either as pointing to his deliverance from the caves and wild solitudes in which he had been compelled to seek refuge, or to the happy state of enlargement, of comfort, luxury, and royal dignity, to which he had been raised.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me, х kiy (H3588) chaapeets (H2654) biy (H871a)] - for he loved or favoured me. David ascribes all his many and wonderful deliverances to the good pleasure and grace of Yahweh as the grand source of them; and he shows wisdom, as well as piety, in premising this remark; otherwise he might have laid himself open, by what follows, to the charge of claiming them as the reward of his personal merits.