2 Samuel 22:40
For thou hast girded me with strength for the war; thou subduest my opponents under me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
39And I make an end of them, and I crush them, that they cannot rise; and they fall under my feet.
41And my enemies thou causest to turn their back to me; those that hate me,—that I may destroy them.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:5So David and his men went to Ke'ilah; and he fought with the Philistines, and lead away their cattle, and smote among them a great slaughter. So David delivered the inhabitants of Ke'ilah.
Psalms 18:39(18:40) For thou hast girded me with strength for the war: thou subduest my opponents under me.
Psalms 144:2My kindness, and my strong-hold; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Isaiah 60:14And then shall come unto thee bent down the sons of those who afflicted thee, and there shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet all thy revilers; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
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 →