2 Samuel 22:40

And thou shalt strengthen me with power for the war; 1 Thou shalt cause them that rise up against me to bow down under me. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

In Context

39And I will crush them, and they shall not rise; 1 And they shall fall under my feet. 1

41And thou hast caused mine enemies to flee before me, 1 Even them that hated me, and thou hast slain them. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:5So David and his men with him went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines; and they fled from before him, and he carried off their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter, and David rescued the inhabitants of Keilah.

Psalms 144:2Every day will I bless thee, 1 And I will praise thy name forever and ever. 1

Isaiah 60:14And the sons of them that afflicted thee, and of them that provoked thee, shall come to thee in fear; and thou shalt be called Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

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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