2 Samuel 22:44 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ You also have delivered me from strife with my people; You kept me as the head of the nations. People whom I had not known served me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ You delivered me from struggles with many people; you appointed me the leader of many nations. Strangers come to serve me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ You will save me from the contradictions of my people. You will preserve me to be the head of the Gentiles; a people I do not know shall serve me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people; thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not shall serve me,

2 Samuel 22:44 Cross References

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 unto the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

2 Samuel 3:1

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

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.

Psalm 110:6

He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill the places with dead bodies; He shall strike through the head in many countries.

Psalm 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Psalm 2:8

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

Isaiah 55:4

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

Isaiah 55:5

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

Isaiah 60:12

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isaiah 65:1

I AM inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto 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 the peoples, 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 wilt sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

Romans 15:12

And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

Romans 9:25

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

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 unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.