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 55:5Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”
• 2 Sam 8:1–14After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
• 2 Sam 3:1Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.
• 2 Sam 19:14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
• 2 Sam 19:9All 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 has fled out of the land from Absalom.
• Deut 28:13Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath; if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today, to observe and to do,
• Rom 9:25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
• Acts 4:25–28who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Dan 7:14There 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.
• Isa 60:12For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
• Acts 5:30–31The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Ps 60:8–9Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
• Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
• Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• 2 Sam 20:1–2There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
• Ps 2:8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
• Isa 65:1“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
• 2 Sam 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
• Ps 110:6He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
• 2 Sam 18:6–8So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
• Ps 18:43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
• Rom 15:12Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
• 2 Sam 20:22Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
• Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
• Ps 72:8–9He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

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