2 Samuel 22:23
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
World English Bible Classic
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 LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
24I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;
Deuteronomy 7:12It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 17:20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Psalms 119:102I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
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 →