2 Samuel 22:23
For all his lawes were before me, and his statutes: I did not depart therefrom.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.
24I was vpright also towarde him, and haue kept me from my wickednesse.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:
Deuteronomy 7:12For if ye hearken vnto these lawes, and obserue and doe them, then the Lord thy God shall keepe with thee the couenant, and the mercie which he sware vnto thy fathers.
Deuteronomy 17:20That his heart be not lifted vp aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commandement, to the right hand or to the left, but that he may prolong his daies in his kingdom, he, and his sonnes in the middes of Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then should I not be confounded, when I haue respect vnto all thy commandements.
Psalms 119:30I haue chosen the way of trueth, and thy iudgements haue I laied before me.
Psalms 119:102I haue not declined from thy iudgements: for thou didest teach 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 →