2 Samuel 22:40

For Thou hast girded me with chayil (strength) for milchamah (battle); 1 them that rose up against me hast Thou caused to bow down under me. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

In Context

39And I have consumed them, and wounded them, 1 that they could not arise; 1 indeed, they are fallen under my raglayim. 1

41Thou hast also given me victory over the necks of mine oyevim, 1 that I might destroy them that hate me. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:5So Dovid and his anashim went to Ke'ilah, and fought with the Pelishtim, and brought away their livestock, and attacked them with a makkah gedolah (great defeat). So Dovid saved the inhabitants of Ke'ilah.

Psalms 18:39I have crushed them that they were not able to rise; 1 they are fallen under my raglayim. 1

Psalms 144:2My Chesed, and my Metzudah (Fortress); 1 my Stronghold, and my Deliverer; 1 my Mogen, and He in Whom I take refuge; 1 Who subdueth my people under me. 1

Isaiah 60:14The banim also of them that oppress thee 1 shall come unto thee in submission; 1 and all they that despised thee 1 shall prostrate themselves down at the soles of thy raglayim; 1 and they shall call thee, The Ir of Hashem, 1 Tziyon of Kadosh Yisroel. 1

Revelation 5:9And they are singing a SHIR CHADASH + 5:9 Ps 96:1 saying, Worthy art thou to take the sefer (book) and to open the chotamot (seals) of it, because you were slain and with your dahm [kapporah] you paid the price for the Geulah + 5:9 Lv 25:50-51 redemption and purchased ones for Hashem from every mishpochah (family) and lashon (tongue) and am (people) and goy (nation), + 5:9 Ps 40:3; 98:1; Isa 42:10

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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