2 Samuel 22:44
You 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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43I beat them into fine pieces like dust on the ground, 1 I pulverized them like mud in the streets. 1
45Foreigners were forced to bow to me. 1 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:13Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; you will be only above, and you will never be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today, so as to observe and to do them,
2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your flesh and bone.
2 Samuel 18:6So the army went out into the countryside against Israel; the battle spread into the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 19:14So he won the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man. They sent to the king saying, “Return, you and all your men.”
2 Samuel 20:22Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri, and threw it out to Joab. Then he blew the trumpet and Joab's men left the city, every man to his home. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
Psalms 2:8Ask me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance 1 and the farthermost regions of the earth for your possession. 1
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 →