2 Samuel 22:44
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.”
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“You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And--Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Samuel 22:44 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- 2 Samuel 3:1Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
- 2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
- 2 Samuel 8:1Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 18:6So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
- 2 Samuel 19:9And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 19:14So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
- 2 Samuel 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
- 2 Samuel 20:22Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- Psalms 60:8Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
- Psalms 72:8May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Psalms 110:6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
- Isaiah 55:4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
- Isaiah 55:5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
- Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
- Isaiah 65:1“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
- Daniel 7:14And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
- Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
- 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 fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
- Romans 9:25As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
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