2 Samuel 22:40
Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
41My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:5David therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.
Psalms 18:39I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 144:2And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.
Isaiah 60:14And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.
Revelation 5:9And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; because thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
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 →