2 Samuel 22:49
He frees me from those who hate me. You keep me safe from those who rebel against me, you save me from violent men.
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48God avenges me, he puts peoples under me,
50That's why I will praise you among the nations, Lord; I will sing praises about who you are.
Cross References
Numbers 24:7The Israelites will pour out bucketfuls of water; their descendants will have plenty of water. Their king will be greater than King Agag; their kingdom will be glorious.
1 Samuel 2:8He helps the poor up from the dust; he raises the lowborn from the trash pile and seats them with the upper class in places of honor. For the foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.
2 Samuel 7:8So then, tell my servant David this is what the Lord Almighty says. I was the one who took you from the fields, from looking after sheep, to become a leader of my people Israel.
Psalms 18:48he rescues me from those who hate me. You keep me safe from those who rebel against me, you save me from violent men.
Psalms 140:1Lord, please save me from those who do evil; protect me especially from those who are violent!
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 →