2 Samuel 22:41
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
In Context
42They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Psalms 18:40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
2 Thessalonians 1:8punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
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 →