2 Samuel 22:41
And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, And those that hated me I destroyed.
Darby Translation
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
42They looked, and there was none to save Unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.
Psalms 18:40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us.
2 Thessalonians 1:8in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings 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 →