Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 18:43

"Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me." — Psalms 18:43 (ASV)

People. — The parallelism favours the interpretation which takes people as equivalent to peoples — the Gentiles. But as in Samuel it is my people, explain it as referring to the early political troubles of David. Notice also in Samuel preserved, instead of made.