2 Samuel 22:39
I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
38I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.
40Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.
Cross References
1 Kings 5:17And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:
Psalms 110:1The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.
Psalms 118:10All nations compassed me about; and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.
Malachi 4:3And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
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 →