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

And the war is long between the house of Saul and the house of David, and David is going on and is strong, and the house of Saul are going on and are weak.

And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, 'Lo, we are thy bone and thy flesh;

And the people goeth out into the field to meet Israel, and the battle is in a forest of Ephraim;

And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, 'The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name is Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, 'We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

Head

And it cometh to pass afterwards that David smiteth the Philistines, and humbleth them, and David taketh the bridle of the metropolis out of the hand of the Philistines.

'And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,

Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

Moab is my pot for washing, over Edom I cast my shoe, Shout, concerning me, O Philistia.

And he ruleth from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.

He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee perish, Yea, the nations are utterly wasted.

And to him is given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, and all peoples, nations, and languages do serve him, his dominion is a dominion age-during, that passeth not away, and his kingdom that which is not destroyed.

and again, Isaiah saith, 'There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations -- upon him shall nations hope;'

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, 'The kingdoms of the world did become those of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

A people

Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.

I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, 'Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.

And I have sowed her to Me in the land, And I have pitied Lo-Ruhamah, And I have said to Lo-Ammi, My people thou art, and it saith, My God!'

as also in Hosea He saith, 'I will call what is not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,