2 Samuel 22:24
And I was upright before him, And kept myself from mine iniquity.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
In Context
23For all his ordinances were before me, And his statutes, I did not depart from them,
Cross References
Genesis 6:9This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.
Psalms 51:6Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden [part] thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
Proverbs 4:23Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
2 Corinthians 5:11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men, but have been manifested to God, and I hope also that we have been manifested in your consciences.
Hebrews 12:1Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
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 →