Discovery Box2 Samuel 22:1
Context22:1 1 David sang 2 to the Lord the words of this song when 3 the Lord rescued him from the power 4 of all his enemies, including Saul. 5
2 Samuel 22:1
Context22:1 6 David sang 7 to the Lord the words of this song when 8 the Lord rescued him from the power 9 of all his enemies, including Saul. 10
2 Samuel 1:6
Context1:6 The young man who was telling him this 11 said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.
Psalms 18:37-42
Context18:37 I chase my enemies and catch 12 them;
I do not turn back until I wipe them out.
18:38 I beat them 13 to death; 14
they fall at my feet. 15
18:39 You give me strength 16 for battle;
you make my foes kneel before me. 17
18:40 You make my enemies retreat; 18
I destroy those who hate me. 19
18:41 They cry out, but there is no one to help them; 20
they cry out to the Lord, 21 but he does not answer them.
18:42 I grind them as fine windblown dust; 22
I beat them underfoot 23 like clay 24 in the streets.
Psalms 89:23
Context89:23 I will crush his enemies before him;
I will strike down those who hate him.
[22:1] 1 sn In this long song of thanks, David affirms that God is his faithful protector. He recalls in highly poetic fashion how God intervened in awesome power and delivered him from death. His experience demonstrates that God vindicates those who are blameless and remain loyal to him. True to his promises, God gives the king victory on the battlefield and enables him to subdue nations. A parallel version of the song appears in Ps 18.
[22:1] 3 tn Heb “in the day,” or “at the time.”
[22:1] 5 tn Heb “and from the hand of Saul.”
[22:1] 6 sn In this long song of thanks, David affirms that God is his faithful protector. He recalls in highly poetic fashion how God intervened in awesome power and delivered him from death. His experience demonstrates that God vindicates those who are blameless and remain loyal to him. True to his promises, God gives the king victory on the battlefield and enables him to subdue nations. A parallel version of the song appears in Ps 18.
[22:1] 8 tn Heb “in the day,” or “at the time.”
[22:1] 10 tn Heb “and from the hand of Saul.”
[1:6] 11 tc The Syriac Peshitta and one
[18:37] 12 tn 2 Sam 22:38 reads “destroy.”
[18:38] 13 tn Or “smash them.” 2 Sam 22:39 reads, “and I wiped them out and smashed them.”
[18:38] 14 tn Heb “until they are unable to rise.” 2 Sam 22:39 reads, “until they do not rise.”
[18:38] 15 sn They fall at my feet. For ancient Near Eastern parallels, see O. Keel, The Symbolism of the Biblical World, 294-97.
[18:39] 16 tn Heb “clothed me.” See v. 32.
[18:39] 17 tn Heb “you make those who rise against me kneel beneath me.”
[18:40] 18 tn Heb “and [as for] my enemies, you give to me [the] back [or “neck”].” The idiom “give [the] back” means “to cause [one] to turn the back and run away.” Cf. Exod 23:27.
[18:40] 19 sn Those who hate me. See v. 17, where it is the
[18:41] 20 tn Heb “but there is no deliverer.”
[18:41] 21 tn Heb “to the
[18:42] 22 tn Heb “I pulverize them like dust upon the face of the wind.” The phrase “upon the face of” here means “before.” 2 Sam 22:43 reads, “like dust of the earth.”
[18:42] 23 tc Ps 18:42 reads, “I empty them out” (Hiphil of ריק), while 2 Sam 22:43 reads, “I crush them, I stomp on them” (juxtaposing the synonyms דקק and רקע). It is likely that the latter is a conflation of variants. One, but not both, of the verbs in 2 Sam 22:43 is probably original; “empty out” does not form as good a parallel with “grind, pulverize” in the parallel line.
