2 Samuel 22:44

God delivered David from internal strife and made him head of nations, so even unknown peoples serve him. God established and expanded his kingdom.

Cross-references · 25

• Isa 55:5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
• 2 Sam 8:1–14Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.
• 2 Sam 3:1Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
• 2 Sam 19:14So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
• 2 Sam 19:9And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
• Deut 28:13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
• Rom 9:25As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
• Acts 4:25–28You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Dan 7:14And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
• Isa 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
• Acts 5:30–31The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.
• Ps 60:8–9Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
• Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
• Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• 2 Sam 20:1–2Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
• Ps 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
• Isa 65:1“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
• 2 Sam 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
• Ps 110:6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
• 2 Sam 18:6–8So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
• Ps 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
• Rom 15:12And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
• 2 Sam 20:22Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
• Hos 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
• Ps 72:8–9May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

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