2 Samuel 22:45

Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

In Context

44You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

46Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

Acts 8:13Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the miracles and signs he observed.

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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