to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
Parallel translations
- WEB You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
- KJV It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful 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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Quick answer
God gives salvation to kings and rescued David, His servant, from the deadly sword. It acknowledges God as the true source of every deliverance.
Overview
David testifies that victory and rescue for kings, including himself, come from God alone, not human strength. He sees his own preservation as God's gracious work. The supreme King delivered is the greater Son of David, Jesus, raised from death to reign forever (Acts 2:32-36).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 18:50Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
- Ps 140:7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.
- Ps 33:16–18No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Isa 45:1–6This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- 2 Sam 21:16–17Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.
- 1 Sam 17:45–46But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- 2 Sam 8:6–14Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- 2 Sam 5:19–25So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
- Jer 27:6–8So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
- 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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