2 Samuel 22:45
The sons of foreigners, who will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will be obedient to me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
In Context
46The foreigners flowed away, but they will be drawn together in their anguishes.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, the people who are saved by the Lord? He is the shield of your assistance and the sword of your glory. Your enemies will refuse to acknowledge you, and so you shall tread upon their necks.”
Psalms 66:3So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations.
Isaiah 56:3And let not the son of the new arrival, who adheres to the Lord, speak, saying, “The Lord will divide and separate me from his people.” And let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
Acts 8:13Then Simon himself also believed and, when he had been baptized, he adhered to Philip. And now, seeing also the greatest signs and miracles being wrought, he was amazed and stupefied.
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 →