2 Samuel 22:23
For all His judgments [are] before me, || As for His statutes, I do not turn from them.
Literal Standard Version
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 YHWH, || And have not done wickedly against my God.
24And I am perfect before Him, || And I keep myself from my iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1“And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which your God YHWH has commanded to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over there to possess it,
Deuteronomy 7:12And it has been, because you hear these judgments, and have kept and done them, that your God YHWH has kept the covenant and the kindness with you which He has sworn to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 17:20so that his heart is not high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command [to] the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”
Psalms 119:6Then I am not ashamed || In my looking to all Your commands.
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of faithfulness, || I have compared Your judgments,
Psalms 119:102I did not turn aside from Your judgments, || For You have directed 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 →