2 Samuel 22:21
The Lord rewarded me because I do what's right; he repaid me because I am innocent.
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20He set me free, he rescued me because he's happy with me.
22For I have followed the Lord's ways; I have not sinned by turning away from my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25The Lord rewarded me for doing what's right. I am innocent in his sight.
1 Kings 8:32listen from heaven—act and judge your servants. Pay back the guilty; vindicate and reward those who do right.
Psalms 7:3If I have done what I'm accused of, if my hands are guilty,
Psalms 18:20The Lord rewarded me because I do what's right; he repaid me because I am innocent.
Psalms 24:4Those who have clean hands and pure minds, who don't worship idols, and who don't lie under oath.
James 4:8Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.
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 →