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Psalm 18:36

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

34He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
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“You have enlarged my steps” turns attention toward the room God has given David to move, and the footing he has preserved.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 18:19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.Both credit God with making room for David, describing a large place and enlarged steps as gifts of his help.
Proverbs 4:12When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.Both describe unhindered steps and feet that avoid stumbling, using secure movement as a picture of help.
Psalm 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.Both credit God with secure footing, whether through enlarged steps or feet set on a rock.
Psalm 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEBoth describe movement with freedom God has given, whether through enlarged steps or a heart set free.
Psalm 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.Both describe steps that hold firm and feet that have not slipped, with Psalm 17 naming God’s paths.
2 Samuel 22:37You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.Both contain the same declaration that God has enlarged David’s steps and his feet have not slipped.
Job 36:16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.David thanks God for enlarged steps; Elihu speaks of God drawing someone out of distress into a wide place.
Job 18:7The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.Both describe someone’s footing, but David’s enlarged steps contrast with shortened steps and counsel that brings a person down.
Deuteronomy 33:20About Gad he said, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm and the crown of the head.Both credit God with enlargement in a setting of combat, though one concerns David’s steps and the other Gad.
Luke 12:50But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!The connection is limited: David describes secure movement, while Jesus speaks of distress over a baptism still to be accomplished.
Luke 24:46–48He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,These verses share little direct language: David credits God with secure footing, while Jesus speaks of Christ’s suffering and resurrection.
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Encouragement

David thanks God for firm footing amid war. His words offer grounds for gratitude without promising a life free of danger: God sustained him in the fight.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).