2 Samuel 22:23
For all His ordinances were before me; and as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
In Context
22For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
24And I was single-hearted toward Him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it —
Deuteronomy 7:12And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 17:20that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then should I not be ashamed, when I have regard unto all Thy commandments.
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of faithfulness; Thine ordinances have I set before me.
Psalms 119:102I have not turned aside from Thine ordinances; for Thou hast instructed me.
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 →