2 Samuel 22:40

And you shall strengthen me with power for the war; you shall cause them that rise up against me to bow down under me.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 + 22:39 Alex. and Heb. consume. I will crush them, and they shall not rise; and they shall fall under my feet.

41And you have caused + 22:41 Gr. as for my enemies, you have given me the back. my enemies to flee before me, even them that hated me, and you have slain them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 23:5So David and his men with him went to Keila, and fought with the Philistines; and they fled from before him, and he carried off their cattle, and struck them with a great slaughter, and David rescued the inhabitants of Keila.

Psalms 144:2Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name + 144:2 Lit. to the age, and to the age of the age. for ever and ever. 1

Isaiah 60:14And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you + 60:14 Lit. having feared. in fear; and you shall be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

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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