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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts.

Context of 2 Samuel 22:46

44You 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. Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses. 47The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock; And exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation, 48The God who executes vengeance for me, And brings down peoples under me,

2 Samuel 22:46 word by word

בְּנֵ֥י נֵכָ֖ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְיַחְגְּר֖וּ מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Foreignersבֵּןbên · son: type ofH1121
• Foreignersנֵכָרnêkâr · foreignH5236
• loseנָבֵלnâbêl · to witherH5034
• comeחָרַגchârag · to quakeH2727
• out of their fortressesמִסְגֶּ֫רֶתmisgereth · perimeterH4526

Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:46

• Isaiah 64:6For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.
• James 1:11For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so also the rich person, in the midst of his pursuits, will die out.
• Isaiah 2:19People will go into caves of the rocks And into holes in the ground Away from the terror of the Lord And the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to terrify the earth.
• Amos 9:3And though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will track them down and take them from there; And though they hide themselves from My sight on the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent from there, and it will bite them.
• Micah 7:17They will lick up dust like a snake, Like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; To the Lord our God they will come in trepidation, And they will be afraid 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