2 Samuel 22:43 “I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them li…”

2 Samuel 22:43

I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

World English Bible

Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

American Standard Version

Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth: I did treade them flat as the clay of the streete, and did spread them abroad.

Darby Translation

And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.

Young's Literal Translation

And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small — I spread them out!

Bible in Basic English

Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

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Cross references

“as small”

2 Kings 13:7 Psalm 35:5 Daniel 2:35 Malachi 4:1

2 Kings 13:7 · BSB

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Psalm 35:5 · BSB

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

Daniel 2:35 · BSB

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the s…

Malachi 4:1 · BSB

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left…

“as the mire”

Micah 7:10 Isaiah 10:6 Zechariah 10:5 Psalm 18:42

Micah 7:10 · BSB

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Zechariah 10:5 · BSB

They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.

Psalm 18:42 · BSB

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

“did spread”

Deuteronomy 32:26 Isaiah 26:15 Zechariah 2:6 Luke 21:24

Deuteronomy 32:26 · BSB

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Isaiah 26:15 · BSB

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Zechariah 2:6 · BSB

“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

42They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

44You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

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