2 Samuel 22:41
You have caused my enemies to turn their back to me; they have hatred for me, and I shall destroy them.
Catholic Public Domain 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
40You have girded me with strength for the battle. Those who resisted me, you have bent down under me.
42They will cry out, and there will be no one to save; to the Lord, and he will not heed them.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my terror to run ahead of you, and I will kill all the people to whom you will enter. And I will turn the backs of all your enemies before you,
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him. And so they sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this one to reign over us.’
2 Thessalonians 1:8granting vindication, by a flame of fire, against those who do not know God and who are not obedient to the Gospel 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 →