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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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 18:50He 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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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