2 Samuel 22:27
And with the excellent thou wilt be excellent, 1 And with the froward thou wilt be froward. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
In Context
26With the holy thou wilt be holy, 1 And with the perfect man thou wilt be perfect, 1
28And thou wilt save the poor people, 1 And wilt bring down the eyes of the haughty. 1
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now know I that the Lord is great above all gods, because of this, wherein they attacked them.
Leviticus 26:24I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.
Isaiah 45:9What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?
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 →