2 Samuel 22:44

44 You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

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 looked, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

43 I beat them fine like the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

44 You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

45 Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

46 Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds.

Footnotes

• [a] Gk: Heb [from strife with my people]