2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
20He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
22For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
1 Kings 8:32Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.
Psalms 7:3\7:2\So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
Psalms 18:20\18:19\He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
James 4:8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
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 →