When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.
Parallel translations
- WEB When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
- KJV When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
- NKJV When the Almighty scattered kings in it, It was white as snow in Zalmon.
- NASB When the Almighty scattered the kings there, It was snowing in Zalmon.
- NLT The Almighty scattered the enemy kings like a blowing snowstorm on Mount Zalmon.
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Quick answer
When the Almighty scattered kings, it was like snow falling on Zalmon. It pictures God's swift, decisive victory over enemy rulers.
Overview
David recalls the Almighty scattering kings, compared to snow falling on Mount Zalmon, an image whose precise meaning is debated among faithful interpreters. The general point is the suddenness and completeness of God's triumph. Such victories foreshadow the decisive defeat of all powers under the reign of Christ.
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- Isa 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Josh 10:10–43And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
- Ps 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Rev 19:14–21The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.
- Judg 2:7And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
- Judg 9:48he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
- Josh 12:1–24Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
- Num 21:21–35Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Jer 2:3Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
- Num 21:3And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
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