2 Samuel 22:44

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Summary

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.

Delivered

Head

A people

Bible References

Delivered

There was long strife between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and said, "See, we are thy bones and thy flesh.

And the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim:

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies. And he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines.

And there happened to be an unthrifty fellow named Sheba, the son of Bichri a man of Benjamin which blew a trumpet and said, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse, O Israel.

W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

which by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, 'Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on tree.

Head

After that, David beat the Philistines and subdued them, and took the bridle of bondage out of their hands.

And the LORD shall set thee before and not behind, and thou shalt be above only and not beneath: if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God which I command thee this day to keep and to do them.

Desire of me, and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; Philistia shall be glad of me.

His dominion shall be from the one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end.

He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.

or every people and kingdom that serveth not thee, shall perish, and be destroyed with the sword.

Then gave he him power and dignity regal, that all people, tribes and tongues should serve him. His power is an everlasting power, which shall never be put down: and his kingdom endureth uncorrupt.

And in another place Isaiah saith, "There shall be the root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles: in him shall the gentiles trust."

And the seventh angel blew, and there were made great voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world are our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for evermore."

A people

Lo, thou shalt call an unknown people: and a people that had no knowledge of thee, shall run unto thee, because of the LORD thy God, the holy one of Israel which glorifieth thee.

They shall seek me, that hitherto have not asked for me, they shall find me, that hitherto have not sought me. Then shall I say immediately to the people that never called upon my name, "I am here, I am here."

I will sow them upon earth, for a seed to mine own self, and will have mercy upon her, that was without mercy. And to them which were not my people, I will say, 'Thou art my people.' And he shall say, 'Thou art my God.'"

As he saith in Hosea, "I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved."