2 Samuel 22:43

Then did I beat them in pieces, like the dust of the earth,—like the clay of the lanes, did I crush them, stamp them down.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

In Context

42They cried out, but there was none to save,—unto Yahweh, but he answered them not.

44Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of my people, didst keep me to be the head of nations:—a people whom I had not known, served me;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9and was with thee, whithersoever thou didst go, and have cut off all thine enemies, from before thee,—and will make thee a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth;

Psalms 18:42Then did I beat them in pieces, like dust on the face of the wind. Like the mire in the lanes, did I scatter them.

Isaiah 10:6Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,—To capture spoil And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

Daniel 2:35Then were broken in pieces at once, the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, and became like chaff out of the summer threshing-floors, and the wind, carried them away, and, no place, was found for them,—but, the stone that smote the image, became a mighty rock, and filled all the land.

Zechariah 2:6Ho! ho! flee ye, therefore, out of the land of the North, urgeth Yahweh. For, as the four winds of the heavens, have I spread you abroad, declareth Yahweh.

Malachi 4:1For lo! the day, cometh, that burneth as a furnace,—and, all the proud and everyone who worketh lawlessness, shall be, stubble, and the day that cometh, shall consume them utterly, saith Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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 →

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