2 Samuel 22:48
You enable me to conquer my enemies; you cause people of other nations to be ◄under my authority/my slaves►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:30Yahweh has promised to do good things for you, and he will do what he has promised. And he will cause you to become the ruler of the Israeli people.
2 Samuel 18:19After Absalom had been killed, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz said to Joab, “Allow me to run to the king to tell him the good news that Yahweh has rescued him from the power of his enemies!”
Psalms 94:1Yahweh, you are able to get revenge on your enemies. So show them that you are going to punish them!
Psalms 144:2He is the one who protects me; he is like a fortress [DOU] in which I am safe, he protects me like shields protect soldiers [MET], and he gives me refuge. He defeats other nations and then puts them under my power.
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 →