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 under us, and peoples under our feet.
• Ps 36:12There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
• 1 Sam 17:49–51David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
• 1 Sam 23:5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
• 2 Sam 10:1–19After this, the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
• 2 Sam 8:1–18After 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 21:15–22The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
• 2 Sam 18:7–8The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
• 2 Sam 5:1–25Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
• 2 Sam 22:39I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
• 1 Sam 30:17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

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