2 Samuel 22:43

What does 2 Samuel 22:43 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 22:43 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small--I spread them out!

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.

Context

v.42They looked, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.

v.43This passage

v.44Thou 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 35:5

    Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah drivingthemon.

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Luke 21:24

    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  • Zechariah 2:6

    Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith Jehovah; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, saith Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 10:6

    I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  • Deuteronomy 32:26

    I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

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