2 Samuel 5:10
And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:5So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.
1 Samuel 18:14and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.
2 Samuel 7:9I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
2 Samuel 8:14He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
Psalms 46:7The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 5:7-11
David Takes Mount Sion. ( b. c. 1047.) 6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. 7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he… Read the whole commentary →