2 Samuel 22:40
For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
41By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:5So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.
Psalms 18:39\18:38\I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
Psalms 144:2He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
Isaiah 60:14And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Revelation 5:9And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
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 →