2 Samuel 22:41
You caused my enemies to turn and run away from me; I destroyed those who hated me.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
Psalms 18:40You caused my enemies to run away (OR, you enabled me to put my foot on my enemies’ necks after I captured them and forced them to lie on the ground); I have gotten rid of all those who hated me.
Luke 19:14But many of his fellow-citizens hated him. So after he left they sent some messengers to tell the Emperor, ‘We (exc) do not want this man to be our king!’
2 Thessalonians 1:8Then he will punish those people who do not want to know him and those who refuse to heed the message about 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 →