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2 Samuel 22:43
2 Samuel 22:43 is verse 43 of 2 Samuel chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
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.
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2 Samuel 22:41–45 · Berean Standard Bible
41 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
42 They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
43 I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.
44 You 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.
45 Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz 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.
Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Daniel 2:35Then 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 statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Malachi 4:1“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 to them.”
Psalms 18:42I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
Isaiah 10:6I 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.
Micah 7:10Then 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.
Zechariah 10:5They 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.
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Isaiah 26:15You 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“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 21:24They 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.