Psalms 18:43

God delivers David from internal strife and exalts him as head over nations, so that even unknown peoples serve him. His kingship extends beyond Israel by God's hand.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 55:5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
• 2 Sam 3:1Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
• Isa 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
• 1 Pet 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
• Eph 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
• 2 Sam 19:9And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
• Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
• 2 Sam 22:44–46You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
• Acts 5:31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
• Ps 22:27–28All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
• Rom 15:18I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
• Rom 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—
• Rom 15:12And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
• 2 Sam 2:9–10and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.
• 2 Sam 8:1–18Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from the hand of the Philistines.
• Isa 49:22–23This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Ps 108:9Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
• 2 Sam 10:1–19Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.
• 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.
• Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

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