2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord will reward me according to my justice. And he will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands.
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20And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.
22For I have kept to the ways of the Lord, and I have not acted impiously before my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.
1 Kings 8:32you will hear in heaven, and you will act and judge your servants, condemning the impious, and repaying his own way upon his own head, but justifying the just, and rewarding him in accord with his justice.
Psalms 7:3lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save.
Psalms 24:4May all those who act unjustly over nothing be confounded. O Lord, demonstrate your ways to me, and teach me your paths.
James 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
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 →