2 Samuel 22:41
Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me that I might cut off those who hate me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
In Context
42They looked, but there was none to save; even to LORD, but he did not answer them.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my terror before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shall come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs to thee.
Psalms 18:40Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy behind him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us.
2 Thessalonians 1:8in a fire of flame rendering vengeance to those who have not known God, and to those not obeying the good-news of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →