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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“You gave me victory over my accusers. You preserved me as the ruler over nations; people I don’t even know now serve me.

Context of 2 Samuel 22:44

42They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the Lord, but he did not answer. 43I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets. “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, 45foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me. 46They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.

2 Samuel 22:44 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thou also hast deliveredפָּלַטpâlaţ · to escapeH6403
• me from the strivingsרִיבrîyb rib · strifeH7379
• of my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• thou hast keptשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: guardH8104
• headרֹאשׁrô'sh · head: leaderH7218
• of the heathenגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• I knewיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• not shall serveעָבַד‛âbad · to serve: ministerH5647

Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:44

• 2 Samuel 3:1The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
• 2 Samuel 5:1All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.
• 2 Samuel 18:6David’s army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
• 2 Samuel 19:9Throughout the tribes of Israel, all the people were arguing among themselves, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies; he is the one who rescued us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he has fled the country to escape from Absalom;
• 2 Samuel 20:1Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”
• Psalms 2:1Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
• Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me,
• Acts 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: “ ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Acts 5:30The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.
• 2 Samuel 8:1In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the control of the Philistines.
• Deuteronomy 28:13The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
• Psalms 2:8Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
• Psalms 60:8Moab is my washbasin, on Edom I toss my sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
• Psalms 72:8May he rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
• Psalms 110:6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
• Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it 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