2 Samuel 22:41
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
In Context
40You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
42They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
Psalms 18:40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.
Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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 →