2 Samuel 22:43

And I beat them as dust of the earth, || As mire of the streets I beat them small—I spread them out!

Literal Standard Version

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, and there is no savior; To YHWH, and He has not answered them.

44And You deliver me || From the strivings of my people, || You place me for a head of nations; A people I have not known serve me.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9and I am with you wherever you have gone, and I cut off all your enemies from your presence, and have made a great name for you, as the name of the great ones who [are] in the earth,

Psalms 18:42And I beat them as dust before wind, || I empty them out as mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10:6I send him against a profane nation, || And concerning a people of My wrath || I charge him, || To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, || And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.

Daniel 2:35then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and the wind has carried them away, and no place has been found for them: and the stone that struck the image has become a great mountain, and has filled all the land.

Zechariah 2:6Behold, and flee from the land of the north, || A declaration of YHWH, || For as the four winds of the heavens, || I have spread you abroad, || A declaration of YHWH.

Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day has come, burning as a furnace, || When all the proud and all those doing wickedness have been stubble, || And the day that came has burned them,” said YHWH of Hosts, || “That there is not left to them root or branch,

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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