2 Samuel 22:41
By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
Bible in Basic English
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
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.
Psalms 18:40\18:39\For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
Luke 19:14But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.
2 Thessalonians 1:8To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
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 →