2 Samuel 22:23
For all his righteous decrees have been before me; 1 as for his statutes, I have not turned away from them. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
22For I have kept the ways of Yahweh 1 and have not acted wickedly by turning from my God. 1
24I have also been innocent before him, 1 and I have kept myself from sin. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1Now these are the commandments, statutes, and decrees that Yahweh your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you might keep them in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess;
Deuteronomy 7:12If you listen to these decrees, and keep and do them, it will happen that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the faithfulness that he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 17:20He must do this so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so that he does not turn away from the commandments, to the right hand or to the left; for the purpose that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, among Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then I would not be put to shame 1 when I think of all your commandments. 1
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of faithfulness; 1 I have always kept your righteous decrees before me. 1
Psalms 119:102I have not turned aside from your righteous decrees, 1 for you have instructed me. 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 →