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2 Samuel 22:46

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Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

KJV

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 22

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

kept me to be head of the heathen

on 2 Samuel 22:44-46

Kept me to be head of the heathen turns the song from Israel's own wars to David's rule over nations beyond Israel, the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Ammonites and Edomites named in the setting of this chapter's own history. A people which I knew not shall serve me reaches beyond David's own conquests for the commentators, who take up the line as a picture of nations that never knew the God of Israel coming to serve him further on. Strangers shall submit themselves unto me widens the same claim, obedience given by nations with no prior claim on the king now ruling over them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus the Son of David goes on conquering and to conquer, Rev. vi. His gospel, which has been victorious, shall be so more and more. For his seed: He showeth mercy to his Messiah (

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Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. See Gill on Psa 18:45.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּנֵ֥יsons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • נֵכָ֖רforeignness

    nekharH5236 →

  • יִבֹּ֑לוּthey withered

    yiboluH5034 →

  • וְיַחְגְּר֖וּand they may girdethemselves

    veyachgeruH2296 →44 times

  • מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתָֽם׃from strongholds their

    mimisgerotamH4526 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.5 worksIsaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.2 worksAmos 9:3Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.2 worksJames 1:11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.2 worksIsaiah 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.2 worksIsaiah 2:21They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 64:6

    Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

    it leads to

    • Romans 7:18

      I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

    • Romans 7:24

      What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

    • Ephesians 2:1–2

      And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

    • Zechariah 3:3

      Now Joshua was dressed in filthy garments as he stood before the angel.

    • Revelation 3:17–18

      You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

  • Through

    James 1:11

    For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 40:7–8

      The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

    • Psalms 37:35–36

      I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

  • Through

    Micah 7:17

    They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 49:23

      Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 22 →

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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