2 Samuel 22:41
Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, that I might cut off them that hate me.
Revised Version 1895
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 none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Psalms 18:40Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, that I might cut off them that hate me.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not that this man reign over us.
2 Thessalonians 1:8in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel 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 →