2 Samuel 22:21
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
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In Context
20He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
22For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
1 Kings 8:32then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 18:20The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
James 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. 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 →