2 Samuel 22:44

2 Samuel 22:44 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
• New International Version (NIV)“You have delivered me from the attacks of the peoples; you have preserved me as the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me,
• English Standard Version (ESV)"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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me as the head of the nations. A people I have not known shall serve me.

Context of 2 Samuel 22:44

42They looked, but there was no one to save them; Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them. 43Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like the mud of the streets. You have also saved me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me. 45Foreigners pretend to obey me; As soon as they hear, they obey me. 46Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.

2 Samuel 22:44 word by word

וַֽתְּפַלְּטֵ֔נִי מֵרִיבֵ֖י עַמִּ֑י תִּשְׁמְרֵ֙נִי֙ לְרֹ֣אשׁ גּוֹיִ֔ם עַ֥ם לֹא־יָדַ֖עְתִּי יַעַבְדֻֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• You have also savedפָּלַטpâlaţ · to escapeH6403
• me from the contentionsרִיבrîyb rib · strifeH7379
• of my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• You have keptשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: guardH8104
• me as headרֹאשׁrô'sh · head: leaderH7218
• of the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• I have not knownיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• serveעָבַד‛âbad · to serve: ministerH5647

Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:44

• 2 Samuel 3:1Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David became steadily stronger, while the house of Saul became steadily weaker.
• 2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
• 2 Samuel 18:6Then the people went out to the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
• 2 Samuel 19:9And all the people were quarreling throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king rescued us from the hands of our enemies and saved us from the hands of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
• 2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man happened to be there whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David, Nor do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse; Every man to his tents, Israel!”
• Psalms 2:1Why are the nations restless And the peoples plotting in vain?
• Psalms 18:43You have rescued me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
• Acts 4:25who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ‘Why were the nations insolent, And the peoples plotting in vain?
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging Him on a cross.
• 2 Samuel 8:1Now it happened afterward that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them; and David took control of the chief city from the hand of the Philistines.
• Deuteronomy 28:13And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only be above, and not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you today, to follow them carefully,
• Psalms 2:8Ask it of Me, and I will certainly give the nations as Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth as Your possession.
• Psalms 60:8Moab is My washbowl; I will throw My sandal over Edom; Shout loud, Philistia, because of Me!”
• Psalms 72:8May he also rule from sea to sea, And from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
• Psalms 110:6He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.
• Isaiah 60:12For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish, And the nations will be utterly ruined.

Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22:44

• 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

In the dictionaries

• Arrow
• Prevent
• Rock
• Songs
• 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