2 Samuel 22:24
And I was single-hearted toward Him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and whole-hearted; Noah walked with God.
Job 1:1THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.
Psalms 51:6(51-8) Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts; make me, therefore, to know wisdom in mine inmost heart.
Proverbs 4:23Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it are the issues of life.
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 →