2 Samuel 22:21
Yahweh rewarded me, according to my righteousness—according to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
20And brought out, into a large place, even me,—he delivered me, because he delighted in me:
22For I had kept the ways of Yahweh,—and not broken away from my God;
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25Yahweh therefore repaid me, according to my righteousness,—according to my pureness before his eyes.
1 Kings 8:32then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the lawless, by setting his way upon his own head,—and justifying the righteous, by giving to him, according to his righteousness?
Psalms 7:3O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:
Psalms 18:20Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me;
Psalms 24:4The clean of hands, and pure of heart,—who hath not uplifted, to falsehood, his soul, nor sworn deceitfully,
James 4:8Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls!
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 →