2 Samuel 22:23
For all his judgments and his ordinances were before me: 1 I departed not from them. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
22Because I kept the ways of the Lord, 1 And did not wickedly depart from my God. 1
24And I shall be blameless before him, 1 And will keep myself from my iniquity. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1And these are the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, as many as the Lord our God gave commandment to teach you to do so in the land on which ye enter to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 7:12And it shall come to pass when ye shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee the covenant and the mercy, which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 17:20that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.
Psalms 119:6My soul has long been a sojourner; 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 →