Psalms 18:38

David's enemies are struck down so thoroughly they cannot rise again. The defeat God grants is final, not partial.

Cross-references · 11

• Ps 47:3He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.
• Ps 36:12There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
• 1 Sam 17:49–51Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
• 1 Sam 23:5Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.
• 2 Sam 10:1–19Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.
• 2 Sam 8:1–18Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.
• 2 Sam 21:15–22Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.
• 2 Sam 18:7–8There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
• 2 Sam 5:1–25Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
• 2 Sam 22:39I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
• 1 Sam 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

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