Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people,.... In Sa2 22:44, it is read "my people", meaning the people of Israel; either Saul and his men, who contended with David, and sought his life;…
Barnes' Notes
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind - As the fine dust is driven by the wind, so they fled before me. There could be no more striking illustration of a defeated army flying before a…
In these verses,
I. David looks back, with thankfulness, upon the great things which God had done for him. He had not only wrought deliverance for him, but had given him victory and success, and made…
Cambridge Bible
Two figures are combined to express the annihilation of David's enemies. They were, as it were, pounded to dust (2Ki 13:7), and then scattered like that dust driven before the wind. Cp. Isa 29:5; Isa…
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