2 Samuel 22:43

And I ground them as the dust of the earth, 1 I beat them small as the mire of the streets. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 shall cry, and there shall be no helper; 1 To the Lord, but he hearkens not to them. 1

44And thou shalt deliver me from the striving of the peoples, 1 Thou shalt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: 1 A people which I knew not served me. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9And I was with thee wheresoever thou wentest, and I destroyed all thine enemies before thee, and I made thee renowned according to the renown of the great ones on the earth.

Isaiah 10:6I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

Zechariah 2:6And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.

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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