“Also say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me and even more if you do not become my army commander before me continually, in place of Joab!’”
2 Samuel 22:44 - Tree of Life Version You free me from strifes of my people. You kept me as head of the nations— people I did not know are serving me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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, |
“Also say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me and even more if you do not become my army commander before me continually, in place of Joab!’”
So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the troops saying, “See, the king is sitting at the gate,” all the troops presented themselves before the king. Meanwhile, Israel had fled each man to his tent.
Then the woman approached all the people wisely. So they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it over to Joab. He then blew the shofar and they were dismissed from the city, each to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. While David grew steadily stronger, the house of Saul grew steadily weaker.
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke saying, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
He will judge among the nations, heaping up corpses. He will crush heads over the entire land.
Then I beat them as fine as dust before the wind. I pour them out like mud in the streets.
Ask Me, and I will give the nations as Your inheritance, and the far reaches of the earth as Your possession.
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.
Behold, you will summon a nation you do not know, and a nation that did not know you will run to you, because of Adonai your God and the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.”
For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish— those nations will be utterly ruined.
“I was sought by those who did not ask for Me, I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Hineni, hineni!’ to a nation not called by My Name.
Dominion, glory and sovereignty were given to Him that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will never pass away, and His kingdom is one that will not be destroyed.
So it will be in that day, I will respond —it is a declaration of adonai— I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth,
And again, Isaiah says, “There shall be a shoot of Jesse; and the One who arises to rule the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles hope.”
as He says also in Hosea, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not loved, ‘Beloved.’
Adonai will make you the head and not the tail, and you will be only above and not below—if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am commanding you today, careful to do them,
Then the seventh angel trumpeted, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Anointed One. And He shall reign forever and ever!”