2 Samuel 22:41
My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
40Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.
42They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee.
Psalms 18:40And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him: and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.
2 Thessalonians 1:8In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God, and who obey not 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 →