A moment in scripture
2 Samuel 22:44
"
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
"
The surrounding passage
- 2 Samuel 22:42
They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
- 2 Samuel 22:43
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.
- 2 Samuel 22:45
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
- 2 Samuel 22:46
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.