2 Samuel 22:46

2 Samuel 22:46 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
• New International Version (NIV)They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts.
• New Living Translation (NLT)They all lose their courage and come trembling from their strongholds.

Context of 2 Samuel 22:46

44"You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. 45Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me. Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses. 47"The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation, 48the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

2 Samuel 22:46 word by word

בְּנֵ֥י נֵכָ֖ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְיַחְגְּר֖וּ מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Strangersנֵכָרnêkâr · foreignH5236
• Strangersבֵּןbên · son: type ofH1121
• shall fade awayנָבֵלnâbêl · to witherH5034
• and they shall be afraidחָגַרchâgar · to girdH2296
• out of their close placesמִסְגֶּ֫רֶתmisgereth · perimeterH4526

Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:46

• Isaiah 64:6We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• James 1:11For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
• Isaiah 2:19And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
• Amos 9:3If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
• Micah 7:17they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22:46

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31-51David praises God for saving him in the past and for promising blessings to his family in the future (see 2 Samuel 7:8–16).Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Arrow
• Prevent
• Rock
• Songs
• Close
• David
• Psalms, Book of
• Samuel, Books of
• Text of the Old Testament
• tremble, stagger, shake, shaken, quake

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings