Psalms 18:44 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:44

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

KJV

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ASV

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

WEB

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

YLT

At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

DBT

At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
2 Corinthians 10:5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Psalms 81:15
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
2 Samuel 22:44–46
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.
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

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And David is here called the servant of the Lord, as Moses was, not only as every good man is God's servant, but because, with his sceptre, with his sword, and with his pen, he greatly promoted the interests of God's kingdom in Israel. It was more his honour that he was a servant of the Lord than that he was king of a great kingdom; and so he himself accounted it ( Ps. cxvi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thus the Son of David, though he sees not yet all things put under him, yet knows he shall reign till all opposing rule, principality, and power shall be quite put down. That his seed should be forever continued in the Messiah, who, he foresaw, should come from his loins,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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