Berean BlueOpen the app

Scripture · Old Testament

2 Samuel 22:46

2 Samuel 22:46 is verse 46 of 2 Samuel chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

Some LXX manuscripts and Vulgate (see also Psalms 18:45); MT and arm themselves

BSB source and public domain terms

King James Version

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

World English Bible

The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

Read in context

2 Samuel 22:44–48 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

46 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

47 The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

48 the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

Read all of 2 Samuel 22

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study 2 Samuel 22:46

Read the commentary on 2 Samuel 22

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 64:6

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

Isaiah 2:19

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 2:21

They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

Open in Berean Blue