2 Samuel 22:46
The sons of the foreigner, were disheartened, and came quaking, out of their fortresses.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
In Context
45The sons of the foreigner, came cringing unto me,—at the hearing of the ear, they submitted to me,—
47Yahweh liveth, and blessed be my rock,—and exalted be the God (of the rock) of my salvation:—
Cross References
Isaiah 2:19And they shall enter into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of clay,—Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Isaiah 64:6But we have become as one unclean all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,—And so we faded like a leaf all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;
Micah 7:17They shall lick the dust like the serpent, Like the crawlers of the earth, shall they come quaking out of their fastnesses,—Towards Yahweh our God, shall they pay adoration, and shall fear because of thee.
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 →