2 Samuel 22:45

45 "¹Foreigners * pretend obedience to me; As soon as they hear *, they obey me.

2 Samuel 22:45 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 22:45

Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they
hear, they shall be obedient unto me.] (See Gill on Psalms 18:44).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

43 "Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.

44 "You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.

45 "Foreigners pretend obedience to me; As soon as they hear , they obey me.

46 "Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.

47 "The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,