2 Samuel 22:38
I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
In Context
37You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:18And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 8:1And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 10:14And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
Romans 8:37But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.
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 →