2 Samuel 22:51
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
50Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:12When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:16And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.
2 Samuel 23:1Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, and the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
Psalms 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
Psalms 48:3God has made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
Psalms 89:24but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
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 →