2 Samuel 22:21
And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
20And he brought me into a wide place, and rescued me, because he delighted in me.
22Because, I kept the ways of the Lord, and did not wickedly depart from my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands in his eye-sight.
1 Kings 8:32then shall you hear from heaven, and do, and you shall judge your people Israel, that the wicked should be + 8:32 Or, considered wicked or lawless. condemned, to recompense his way upon his head; and to justify the righteous, to give to him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) 1
Psalms 24:4Show me your ways, O Lord; and teach me your 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 →