2 Samuel 22:44

And you shall deliver me from the striving of the + 22:44 A.V. 'my people.' peoples, you shall keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: a people which I knew not served me.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

In Context

43And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.

45The strange children feigned obedience to me; they listened to me + 22:45 Gr. at the hearing of the ear. as soon as they heard.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:13The Lord your God make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I charge you this day to observe.

2 Samuel 5:1And all the tribes of Israel come to David to Chebron, and they said to him, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

2 Samuel 18:6And all the people went out into the wood against Israel; and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 19:14And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return you, and all your servants.

2 Samuel 20:22And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and + 20:22 Gr. it or she. i.e. ἡ πόλις. they took off the head of Sabee the son of Bochori; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Psalms 2:8Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. 1

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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