2 Samuel 22:49
He sets me free from my enemies. 1 Indeed, you lifted me up above those who rose up against me. 1 You rescue me from violent men. 1
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48This is the God who executes vengeance for me, 1 the one who brings down peoples under me. 1
Cross References
Numbers 24:7Water flows from their buckets, 2 and their seed is well-watered. 1 Their king is to be higher than Agag, 2 and their kingdom will be honored. 1
1 Samuel 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. 1 He lifts the needy from the ash heap 1 to make them sit with princes 1 and inherit the seat of honor. 1 For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's 1 and he has set the world upon them. 1
2 Samuel 7:8Now then, tell my servant David, “This is what Yahweh of hosts says: 'I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, so that you would be ruler over my people Israel.
Psalms 18:48I am set free from my enemies! Indeed, you lifted me above the ones who rose against me! You rescued me from violent men. 1
Psalms 140:1Yahweh, rescue me from the wicked; 1 preserve me from violent men. 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 →