2 Samuel 22:21
YHWH repays me, || According to my righteousness, || According to the cleanness of my hands, He returns to me.
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In Context
20And He brings me out to a large place, || He draws me out for He delighted in me.
22For I have kept the ways of YHWH, || And have not done wickedly against my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25And YHWH returns to me, || According to my righteousness, || According to my cleanness before His eyes.
1 Kings 8:32then You hear in the heavens, and have done, and have judged Your servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his [own] head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, || If there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 18:20YHWH repays me || According to my righteousness, || According to the cleanness of my hands, || He returns to me.
Psalms 24:4The clean of hands, and pure of heart, || Who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, || Nor has sworn to deceit.
James 4:8draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
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 →