When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Parallel translations
- WEB When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
- 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 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: 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 10:10–43And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
- Ps 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Rev 19:14–21And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
- Judg 2:7And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
- Judg 9:48And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
- Josh 12:1–24Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
- Num 21:21–35And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Jer 2:3Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
- Num 21:3And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
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