Tree of Life Version
2 Samuel 22:28
28You save lowly people. But Your eyes are on the haughty— You will humble them.
2 Samuel 22:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
- New International Version (NIV)You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You will save the humble people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.
Context of 2 Samuel 22:28
26With the loyal You deal loyally. With the blameless You are blameless. 27With the pure You show Yourself pure, but with the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. You save lowly people. But Your eyes are on the haughty— You will humble them. 29For You are my lamp, Adonai. Adonai shines in my darkness. 30For with You I rush on a troop, with my God I can leap over a wall.
Read all of 2 Samuel 222 Samuel 22:28 word by word
וְאֶת־עַ֥ם עָנִ֖י תּוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינֶ֖יךָ עַל־רָמִ֥ים תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:28
- Exodus 3:7Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.
- Psalms 12:5They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail. We own our lips—who can master us?”
- Psalms 72:12For he rescues the needy crying for help, also the poor and the one with no helper.
- Psalms 140:12May a slanderer not endure in the land. May calamity hunt down a violent man.
- Isaiah 61:1The Ruach Adonai Elohim is on me, because Adonai has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,
- Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
- Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Exodus 9:14For this time I will send all My plagues to your heart, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what Adonai, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long would you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so they may serve Me.
- Exodus 18:11Now I know that Adonai is greater than all gods, since they had acted arrogantly against them.”
- Job 40:11Scatter the fury of your anger. Look at every proud person and bring him low;
- Psalms 138:6For though Adonai is exalted, yet He looks upon the lowly, but the haughty He knows from afar.
- Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the lamp of the wicked is sin.
- Isaiah 2:11The man of haughty eyes is humbled, the lofty ones brought low, for Adonai alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 5:15So humanity will be bowed down mankind will be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty humbled.”
- Isaiah 37:23Whom did you taunt and blaspheme? Against whom did you raise your voice and haughtily lift up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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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
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