2 Samuel 22:44

44 You have freed me from the feuds among my people;^[a] You have appointed me the head of nations; a people I had not known serve me.^[b]

2 Samuel 22:44 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 22:44

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.] (See Gill on Psalms 18:43).

2 Samuel 22:44 In-Context

42 They look, but there is no one to save [them]- [they look] to the Lord, but He does not answer them.

43 I pulverize them like dust of the earth; I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

44 You have freed me from the feuds among my people; You have appointed me the head of nations; a people I had not known serve me.

45 Foreigners submit to me grudgingly; as soon as they hear, they obey me.

46 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their fortifications.

Footnotes

• [a] 2 Sm 2:8-10; 15:1-6; 16:5-8; 20:1-2
• [b] 2 Sm 8:1-14; Isa 55:5