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2 Samuel 18:28
Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ahimaaz runs to King David after the battle, shouting a message of peace and blessing before bowing facedown. (2 Samuel 18:28)
The words — The Hebrew term שָׁלוֹם (shalom) denotes peace or wholeness, and וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוּ (yishtachavu) records the physical act of bowing facedown.
The thread — This formula of blessing God for delivering enemies echoes Abram’s declaration in Genesis 14:20, while the bowed posture parallels the homage shown in 2 Samuel 14:4.
Why it lands — The text records Ahimaaz’s immediate praise for God’s victory before the king, establishing a pattern of acknowledging divine intervention in human conflict.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
Cross-references
- Genesis 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
- 2 Samuel 14:4 When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
- Genesis 24:27 saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- 1 Samuel 24:18 And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 26:8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
- 2 Samuel 1:2 On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.
- 2 Samuel 22:27 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- 2 Chronicles 20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, where they blessed the LORD. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Beracah to this day.
- Psalms 31:8 You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Psalms 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.