2 Samuel 22:44
Thus 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;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
45The sons of the foreigner, came cringing unto me,—at the hearing of the ear, they submitted to me,—
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:13And Yahweh, will give thee, to be the head, and not the tail, and thou shalt be only above, and shalt not be beneath,—because thou dost hearken unto the commandments of Yahweh thy God, which I am commanding thee, to-day, to observe and to do;
2 Samuel 5:1Then came all the tribes of Israel unto David, in Hebron,—and spake, saying—Behold us! thy bone and thy flesh, we are.
2 Samuel 18:6So the people went forth into the field against Israel,—and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 19:14Thus bowed he the heart of all the men of Judah, as one man,—and they sent unto the king, Return, thou, and all thy servants.
2 Samuel 20:22So the woman came unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it out unto Joab. And he blew with a horn, and they dispersed themselves from the city, every man to his home; but, Joab, returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
Psalms 2:8Ask of me, and let me give nations as thine inheritance, and, as thy possession, the ends of the earth:
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 →