2 Samuel 22:38
I pursue my enemies and destroy them; and I return not again until I have made an end of them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
In Context
37Thou enlargest my steps under me, so that my joints do not slip.
39And I make an end of them, and I crush them, that they cannot rise; and they fall under my feet.
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:18The Philistines also came and spread themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 8:1And it came to pass after this, that David smote the Philistines, and humbled them: and David took Metheg-haammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 10:14And when the children of 'Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then did they also fly before Abishai, and entered into the city. Joab then returned from the children of 'Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
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 →