2 Samuel 22:49
who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
48the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,
50Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
Cross References
Numbers 24:7Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
2 Samuel 7:8Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.
Psalms 18:48who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
Psalms 140:1Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
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 →