2 Samuel 22:21
Yahweh has rewarded me to the measure of my righteousness; 1 he has restored me to the measure of the cleanness of my hands. 1
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20He also brought me out to a wide open place. 1 He saved me because he was pleased with me. 1
22For I have kept the ways of Yahweh 1 and have not acted wickedly by turning from my God. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25Therefore Yahweh has restored me to the measure of my righteousness, 1 to the degree of my cleanness in his sight. 1
1 Kings 8:32listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3Yahweh my God, if I have done this, 1 and there is guilt on my hands— 1
Psalms 18:20Yahweh has rewarded me because of my righteousness; he has restored me because my hands were clean. 1
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; 1 who has not lifted up a falsehood, 1 and has not sworn an oath in order to deceive. 1
James 4:8Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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 →