2 Samuel 22:44
And 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
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
43And I ground them as the dust of the earth, 1 I beat them small as the mire of the streets. 1
45The strange children feigned obedience to me; 1 They hearkened to me as soon as they heard. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:13The Lord thy God make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt then be above and thou shalt not be below, if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, in all things that I charge thee this day to observe.
2 Samuel 5:1And all the tribes of Israel come to David to Hebron, and they said to him, Behold, we are thy bone and thy 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 ye shall say to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? and now God do so to me, and more also, if thou shalt not be commander of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel 20:22And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri; 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 thee the heathen for thine inheritance, 1 And the ends of the earth for thy 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 →