When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
Parallel translations
- KJV When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
- BSB When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- Josh 10:10–43Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to 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 which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
- Judg 2:7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
- Judg 9:48Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”
- Josh 12:1–24Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Num 21:21–35Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Jer 2:3Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,”’ says Yahweh.”
- Num 21:3Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.
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