He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
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He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
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He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
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A tower of salvation is He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
Cross-references (16)
Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 7:12-13 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- Psalms 18:50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
- Psalms 89:20 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- Psalms 89:29 I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
- Psalms 144:10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
- 2 Samuel 22:2 and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
- Psalms 3:3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
- Psalms 21:1 The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
- Psalms 48:3 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
- Psalms 89:26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
- Psalms 89:36 His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
- Psalms 91:2 I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
- Jeremiah 30:9 but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
- Luke 1:31-33 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’ He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
- Revelation 11:15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Psalms 89:24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 51. He is the tower of salvation] So the…
51. He is the tower of salvation] So the Qrî: cp. Psa_61:3; Pro_18:10 : but the Kthîbh, the Versions, and Psa_18:50 read, Who giveth great deliverance. The difference between the consonants of the words in the original is very trifling (מנדול–מנדיל).
to his seed for evermore] A reference to the promise in ch. 2Sa_7:12-16, claiming the continued favour of God for his posterity. See notes there.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (51) He is the tower of salvation.—This translation follows…
(51) He is the tower of salvation.—This translation follows the margin of the Hebrew. The text is found in the ancient versions and in Psa_18:50. “Great deliverance giveth he.” The difference in the original between the consonants of the two words is extremely slight.
This brief review of these two recensions of this magnificent hymn is instructive, as showing that Providence has dealt with the MSS. of the Old Testament as with those of the New, securing them during the long succession of ages from all substantial error, and yet not so destroying ordinary human action but that mere slips of the pen should sometimes creep in, and care and diligence be required to ascertain precisely what was originally written, and sometimes, perhaps, in the merest minutiæ, leaving the original form still uncertain.
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The Psalm is a grand anthem of thanksgiving of David for the many mercies he had received—a full and confident expression of his trust in God under all circumstances, and of his well-assured hope in the fulfilment of the Divine promise of the perpetuity of his kingdom through the coming of Him “in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed.”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 22:51 Cp. 7:5-29; 1 Sam 2:10.
22:51 Cp. 7:5-29; 1 Sam 2:10.
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