2 Samuel 22:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

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  • 2 Sam 5:18-25 : 18 And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. 19 And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands. 20 And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim. 21 And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away. 22 And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim. 23 And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees. 24 Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines. 25 And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.
  • 2 Sam 8:1-2 : 1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines. 2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
  • 2 Sam 8:13-14 : 13 And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men. 14 And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
  • 2 Sam 10:14 : 14 And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you. 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

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    36You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

    37I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    38I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    39For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

    40By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • 2 Sam 22:39-41
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    39I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    40For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 9:3
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    3When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • 2 Sam 22:43
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    43Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

  • Exod 15:9
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    9Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

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    10All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    11They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    12They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

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    22My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

  • Ps 18:42
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    42Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
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    37You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • Deut 32:41-42
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    41If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

    42I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

  • Lam 2:22
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    22As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

  • 2 Sam 22:48-49
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    48It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

    49He makes me free from my haters: I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

  • Ps 38:19
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    19But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    139My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

  • Ps 81:14
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  • Jer 20:11
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  • 2 Sam 22:22
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    22For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

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    3He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

  • 2 Sam 22:18
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    18He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

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    31And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 17:8
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    29By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

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    19See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

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    23I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.