2 Samuel 22:44

2 Samuel chapter 22 · verse 44 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.43Then 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.

v.44This passage

v.45The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.

Cross references

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

  • Psalms 72:8

    He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth.

  • Psalms 2:8

    Ask of me, and I will givetheethe nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

  • 2 Samuel 5:1

    Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

  • Psalms 2:1

    Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?

  • Romans 9:25

    As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

  • 2 Samuel 18:6

    So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.