2 Samuel 22:43

I beat them into fine pieces like dust on the ground, 1 I pulverized them like mud in the streets. 1

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Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

In Context

42They cried for help, but no one saved them; 1 they cried out to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. 1

44You also have rescued me from the disputes of my own people. 1 You have kept me as the head of nations. 1 A people that I have not known serves me. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9I have been with you wherever you went. I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the great ones of the earth.

Psalms 18:42I beat them into fine pieces like dust before the wind; I threw them out like mud in the streets. 1

Isaiah 10:6I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people who bear my overflowing wrath. 1 I order him to take the spoil, to take the prey, and to trample them like mud in the streets. 1

Daniel 2:35Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold at the same time were broken into pieces and became like the chaff of the threshing floors in the summer. The wind carried them away and there was no trace of them left. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

Zechariah 2:6Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1 for I have scattered you like the four winds of the skies!—This is Yahweh's declaration. 1

Malachi 4:1For see, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and all the evildoers will become stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

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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