2 Samuel 22:44
And 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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In Context
43And I beat them as dust of the earth, || As mire of the streets I beat them small—I spread them out!
45Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, || At the hearing of the ear they listen to me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:13And YHWH has set you for head and not for tail; and you have been only above, and are not beneath, for you listen to the commands of your God YHWH, which I am commanding you today, to keep and to do,
2 Samuel 5:1And all the tribes of Israel come to David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, “Behold, we [are] your bone and your flesh;
2 Samuel 18:6And the people go out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;
2 Samuel 19:14And he inclines the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send to the king, “Return, you and all your servants.”
2 Samuel 20:22And the woman comes to all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast [it] to Joab, and he blows with a horn, and they are scattered from the city, each [goes] to his tents, and Joab has turned back to Jerusalem to the king.
Psalms 2:8Ask of Me and I give nations [as] Your inheritance, || And the ends of the earth [for] Your possession.
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 →