2 Samuel 22:23
For all his ordinances were before me, and from none of his statutes did I depart.
Leeser Tanakh
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 had kept the ways of the Lord, and had not wickedly departed from my God.
24I was also upright toward him, and I guarded myself against my iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1And this is the commandment, with the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord your God hath commanded to teach you, to do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it:
Deuteronomy 7:12And it shall come to pass in reward for that ye will hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God will keep unto thee the covenant and the kindness which he hath sworn unto thy fathers:
Deuteronomy 17:20So that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and so that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right, or to the left: in order that he may live many days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then would I not be made ashamed, while I look at all thy commandments.
Psalms 119:30The way of truth have I chosen: thy ordinances have I set [before me].
Psalms 119:102From thy ordinances have I not departed; 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 →