He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.
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He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.
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And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
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And He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:23 “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
- Joshua 10:10 Yahweh 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.
- Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
- Psalms 7:12-13 If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow. He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
- Psalms 18:14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
- Psalms 45:5 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
- Psalms 144:6-7 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and…
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself unsavoury. See Gill on Psa 18:26.
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sa2 22:28And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. See Gill on Psa 18:27.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Sends arrows — Jehovah’s arrows are the forked…
15. Sends arrows — Jehovah’s arrows are the forked lightnings, as indicated in the next line of the parallelism.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. scattered them] “Them” obviously refers to the enemies…
15. scattered them] “Them” obviously refers to the enemies whose destruction was the object of this divine interposition (2Sa_22:4).
discomfited them] A word denoting the confusion of a sudden panic, and used specially of supernatural defeat. Cp. Exo_14:24 (E. V. troubled); Jos_10:10; Jdg_4:15; 1Sa_7:10.
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