2 Samuel 22:43

And I beat them small as the dust of the earth; as the mire of the street, I stamp them, I tread them down.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

In Context

42They look about, but there is none to help; unto the Lord—but he answereth them not.

44Thou hast also delivered me from the contests of my people: thou preservest me to be the head of nations, a people which I know not shall serve me.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9And I have been with thee whithersoever thou didst go, and I have cut off all thy enemies from thy presence, and I have made thee a great name, like the name of the great who are on the earth;

Psalms 18:42(18:43) And I beat them small as the dust before the wind: like the dirt in the streets do I cast them out.

Isaiah 10:6Against a hypocritical nation will I send him, and against the people of my fury will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to carry off the prey, and to render them trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Daniel 2:35Then were the iron, the clay, the copper, the silver, and the gold ground up together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no trace was found of them; and the stone that had stricken the image became a mighty mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Zechariah 2:6(2:10) Up! up! and flee away from the land of the north saith the Lord; for as the four winds of the heaven have I spread you abroad, saith the Lord.

Malachi 4:1(3:19) For, behold, the day is coming, which shall burn as an oven; and all the presumptuous, yea, and all who practise wickedness shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, who will not leave them root or bough.

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 →

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