Parallel Verses
Amplified
“You also have rescued me from strife with my [own] people;
You have kept me as the head of the nations.
People whom I have not known served me.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.
International Standard Version
You delivered me from civil war among my own people. You preserved me as head of the nations. People whom I had never known served me!
A Conservative Version
Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
Darby Translation
And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me:
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt save me from the strifes of my people, Thou wilt watch me for the head of nations: The people I have not known shall serve me.
King James 2000
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.
Modern King James verseion
You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people, You have kept me the head of the nations. A people I knew not shall serve me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.
NET Bible
You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
New Heart English Bible
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of my people, didst keep me to be the head of nations: - a people whom I had not known, served me;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
Youngs Literal Translation
And -- Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:44
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Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
43
“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.
“You also have rescued me from strife with my [own] people;
You have kept me as the head of the nations.
People whom I have not known served me.
“Foreigners pretend obedience to me;
As soon as they hear [me], they obey me.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 8:1-14
Now it came about after this that David defeated the Philistines and subdued (humbled) them, and he took control of Metheg-ammah [the main city] from the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 55:5
“In fact, you
And a nation that does not know you will run to you,
Because of the Lord your God, even the Holy One of Israel;
For He has glorified you.”
2 Samuel 3:1
There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David grew steadily stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker [to the point of being powerless].
Deuteronomy 28:13
The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.
2 Samuel 19:9
All the people were quarreling throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king rescued us from the hands of our enemies, and he saved us from the hands of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
2 Samuel 19:14
In this way he changed the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so they sent word to the king, “Return, you and all your
2 Samuel 5:1
Then
2 Samuel 18:6-8
So the men went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 20:1-2
There happened to be there
And no inheritance in the son of Jesse,
Every man to his tents, O Israel!”
2 Samuel 20:22
Then the woman in her wisdom went to all the people [to inform them of the agreement]. And they beheaded Sheba the son of Bichri and threw his head [down] to Joab. So he blew the trumpet [signaling the end of the attack], and they dispersed from the city, every man to his own tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to [David] the king.
Psalm 2:1-6
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?
Psalm 2:8
‘Ask of Me, and I will assuredly give [You] the nations as Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth as Your possession.
Psalm 18:43
You have rescued me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as the head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.
Psalm 60:8-9
“Moab is My
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe [in triumph];
Over Philistia I raise the shout [of victory].”
Psalm 72:8-9
May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 110:6
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.
Isaiah 60:12
“For the nation or the kingdom which will not serve you [Jerusalem] shall perish,
And the nations [that refuse to serve] shall be utterly ruined.
Isaiah 65:1
I let Myself be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To the nation [Israel] which did not call on My Name.
Daniel 7:14
“And to Him (the Messiah) was given dominion (supreme authority),
Glory and a kingdom,
That all the peoples, nations, and speakers of every language
Should serve and worship Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
Which will not pass away;
And His kingdom is one
Which will not be destroyed.
Hosea 2:23
“I will sow her for Myself in the land.
I will also have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
And I will say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people,’
And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”
Acts 4:25-28
who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David, Your servant, said,
And the peoples devise futile things [against the Lord]?
Acts 5:30-31
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a
Romans 9:25
Just as He says in [the writings of the prophet] Hosea:
And [I will call] her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”
Romans 15:12
Again Isaiah says,
He who arises to rule [as King] over the Gentiles,
In Him shall the Gentiles hope.”
Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel sounded [his trumpet]; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying,
“The kingdom (dominion, rule) of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.”