2 Samuel 22:46
Sons of a stranger fade away, || And gird themselves by their close places.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
In Context
45Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, || At the hearing of the ear they listen to me.
47YHWH lives, and blessed [is] my Rock, || And exalted is my God—The Rock of my salvation.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:19And [men] have entered into caverns of rocks, || And into caves of dust, || Because of the fear of YHWH, || And because of the honor of His excellence, || In His rising to terrify the earth.
Isaiah 64:6And we are as unclean—all of us, || And all our righteous acts [are] as garments of menstruation; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities take us away as wind.
Micah 7:17They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, || They tremble from their enclosures, || They are afraid of our God YHWH, || Indeed, they are afraid of You.
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 →