“So which triumphs is he recalling? Which successes? Some in Egypt, some in the desert, some in the land of promise, but especially those in the promised land.… They had no need of weapons; instead, they captured cities by a mere shout, and crossing the Jordan they overran the first city that stood in their way, Jerich…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 44:3
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2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
— Psalms 44:2 —
3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.