You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
Parallel translations
- KJV It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
- BSB to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
- NKJV The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.
- NASB Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues His servant David from the evil sword.
- NLT For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
- Ps 140:7Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
- Ps 33:16–18There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
- 2 Sam 8:6–14Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
- 1 Sam 17:45–46Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- Isa 45:1–6Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
- 2 Sam 5:19–25David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
- 2 Sam 21:16–17and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
- Jer 27:6–8Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
- 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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