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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!
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.
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.
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.
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 I pulverized them to powder, like the dust of the earth; I crushed them, stomping on them like mud on a street. 44 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! 45 Foreigners came cringing to me; they obeyed as soon as they heard me.
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2 Samuel 8:1-14
Sometime later, David defeated and subdued the Philistines, taking Metheg-ammah away from the Philistines.
Isaiah 55:5
"Look! You will call a nation that you do not know, 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
After this, a state of protracted war existed between Saul's dynasty and David's dynasty, and the dynasty of David continued to grow and become strong while the dynasty of Saul continued to grow weaker.
Deuteronomy 28:13
"The LORD your God will make you the head and not the tail placing you above and not beneath if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I'm giving you today to keep and observe.
2 Samuel 19:9
Meanwhile, the Israelis had run away back to their own homes. Throughout the tribes of Israel, everyone was quarreling with one another: "The king delivered us from the domination of our enemies"." "He's the one who rescued us from Philistine control"." "Now he's fleeing the country because of Absalom"!"
2 Samuel 19:14
By doing things like this, he persuaded all the men of Judah to unite in support of him. They sent the king this message: "Come on back, you and all of your army!"
2 Samuel 5:1
After this, all of the tribes of Israel assembled with David at Hebron and declared, "Look, we're your own flesh and blood!
2 Samuel 18:6-8
David's army left for the battlefield to fight Absalom and his Israeli followers, and they also fought in the Ephraim forest,
2 Samuel 20:1-2
Right about then, Bichri's son Sheba, an ungodly man from the tribe of Benjamin, sounded a battle trumpet and announced: We've never been a part of David! We'll never gain anything from Jesse's son! It's every man to his tent, Israel!
2 Samuel 20:22
So the woman replied, "Watch this! His head will be thrown to you over the city wall." Then the woman wisely went back to her people. They cut off the head of Bichri's son Sheba and threw it out to Joab, so Joab sounded his battle trumpet and they withdrew from the city. Everybody went back home and Joab returned to the king at Jerusalem.
Psalm 2:1-6
Why are the nations in an uproar, and their people involved in a vain plot?
Psalm 2:8
Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.
Psalm 18:43
You rescued me from conflict with the people; you made me head of the nations. People who did not know me will serve me.
Psalm 60:8-9
Moab is my wash basin; over Edom I will throw my shoes; over Philistia I will celebrate my triumph."
Psalm 72:8-9
May he rule from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 110:6
He will execute judgment against the nations, filling graves with corpses. He will utterly destroy leaders far and wide.
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; those nations will be utterly ruined.
Isaiah 65:1
"I let myself be sought by those who didn't ask for me; I let myself be found by those who didn't seek me. I said, "Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that didn't call on my name.
Daniel 7:14
To him dominion was bestowed, along with glory and a kingdom, so that all nations, nations, and languages are to serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion it will never pass away and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."
Hosea 2:23
I will plant my people in the land for myself. I will show mercy on her who has received no mercy I will say to those who are not my people, "You are my people!' and they will say, "You are my God.'"
Acts 4:25-28
You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David, "Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots?
Acts 5:30-31
The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.
Romans 9:25
As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.
Romans 15:12
And again, Isaiah says, "There will be a Root from Jesse. He will rise up to rule the gentiles, and the gentiles will hope in him."
Revelation 11:15
When the seventh angel blew his trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The world's kingdom has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever."