2 Samuel 22:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you have girded me with strength for battle: those who rose up against me you have subdued under me.

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  • Ps 44:5 : 5 Through You will we push down our enemies: through Your name will we tread them under who rise up against us.
  • Col 1:11 : 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
  • Ps 18:39 : 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • 1 Sam 17:49-51 : 49 David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, slung it, and struck the Philistine in the forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone and struck the Philistine, and killed him. There was no sword in David's hand. 51 David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
  • 1 Sam 23:5 : 5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and struck them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
  • Ps 18:32 : 32 It is God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
  • Ps 144:2 : 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
  • Isa 45:5 : 5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me: I will strengthen you, though you have not known Me.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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