2 Samuel 22:40
For you have armed me with strength for the battle.You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
41You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,that I might cut off those who hate me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
Psalms 18:39For you have girded me with strength to the battle.You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalms 144:2my loving kindness, my fortress,my high tower, my deliverer,my shield, and he in whom I take refuge;who subdues my people under me.
Isaiah 60:14The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Revelation 5:9They sang a new song, saying,"You are worthy to take the scroll,and to open its seals:for you were killed,and redeemed us for God with your blood,out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
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 →