2 Samuel 22:21
And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; 1 Even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
20And he brought me into a wide place, 1 And rescued me, because he delighted in me. 1
22Because I kept the ways of the Lord, 1 And did not wickedly depart from my God. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, 1 And according to the purity of my hands in his eyesight. 1
1 Kings 8:32then shalt thou hear from heaven, and do, and thou shalt judge thy people Israel, that the wicked should be condemned, to recompense his way upon his head; and to justify the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, 1 While there is none to ransom, nor to save. 1
Psalms 24:4Show me thy ways, O Lord; 1 And teach me thy paths. 1
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 →