Parallel Verses
Webster
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.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.
International Standard Version
You delivered me from civil war among my own people. You preserved me as head of the nations. People whom I had never known served me!
A Conservative Version
Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“You also have rescued me from strife with my [own] people;
You have kept me as the head of the nations.
People whom I have not known served me.
Bible in Basic English
You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
Darby Translation
And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me:
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt save me from the strifes of my people, Thou wilt watch me for the head of nations: The people I have not known shall serve me.
King James 2000
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.
Modern King James verseion
You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people, You have kept me the head of the nations. A people I knew not shall serve me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
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.
NET Bible
You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
New Heart English Bible
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of my people, didst keep me to be the head of nations: - a people whom I had not known, served me;
World English Bible
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:44
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Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, and spread them abroad. 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. 45 Strangers shall submit themselves to me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 8:1-14
And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 55:5
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run to thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
2 Samuel 3:1
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
Deuteronomy 28:13
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken to the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
2 Samuel 19:9
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he hath fled out of the land for Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:14
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word to the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
2 Samuel 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 18:6-8
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
2 Samuel 20:1-2
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
2 Samuel 20:22
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
Psalm 2:1-6
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psalm 2:8
Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psalm 18:43
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalm 60:8-9
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Psalm 72:8-9
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 110:6
He will judge among the heathen, he will fill the places with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Isaiah 65:1
I am sought by them that asked not for me; I am found by them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
Daniel 7:14
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them who were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Acts 4:25-28
Who, by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts 5:30-31
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree:
Romans 9:25
As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not my people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved.
Romans 15:12
And again Isaiah saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Revelation 11:15
And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he will reign for ever and ever.