2 Samuel 5:10
And David waxed greater and greater; for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:5And David went out; whithersoever Saul sent him, he had good success; and Saul set him over the men of war; and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
1 Samuel 18:14And David had great success in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
2 Samuel 7:9And I have been with thee whithersoever thou didst go, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.
2 Samuel 8:14And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
Psalms 46:7(46-8) The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah
Proverbs 4:18But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 5:7-11
David Takes Mount Sion. ( b. c. 1047.) 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he… Read the whole commentary →