2 Samuel 22:21
LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
20He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
22For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight.
1 Kings 8:32then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 18:20LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
James 4:8Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →