2 Samuel 22:48
This is the God who executes vengeance for me, 1 the one who brings down peoples under me. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
In Context
47Yahweh lives! May my rock be praised. 1 May God be exalted, the rock of my salvation. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:30Yahweh will have done for my master everything he promised you, and has appointed you leader over Israel.
2 Samuel 18:19Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Let me now run to the king with the good news, how Yahweh has rescued him from the hand of his enemies.”
Psalms 94:1Yahweh, God who avenges, 1 God who avenges, shine over us. 1
Psalms 144:2You are my covenant faithfulness and my fortress, 1 my high tower and the one who rescues me, 1 my shield and the one in whom I take refuge, 1 the one who subdues nations under me. 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 →