2-Samuel - 22:30

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30 For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

Verse In-Depth

Explanation and meaning of 2-Samuel 22:30.

Differing Translations

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For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
For by Thee I run, a troop, By my God I leap a wall.
For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.
For by Thee I run upon a troop; By my God do I scale a wall.
For in you, I will run girded. In my God, I will leap over the wall.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. See Gill on Psalm 18:29.

In the strength of his God he could run hostile troops and leap walls, i.e., overcome every hostile power. ארוּץ, not from רצץ, to smash in pieces, but from רוּץ, to run; construed with the accusative according to the analogy of verbs of motion.

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