2 Samuel 22:24
So became I blameless towards him,—and kept myself from mine iniquity:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
In Context
23For, all his regulations, were before me,—and, as for his statutes, I turned not from them.
25Yahweh therefore repaid me, according to my righteousness,—according to my pureness before his eyes.
Cross References
Genesis 6:9These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations,—with God, did Noah walk.
Job 1:1A man, there was—in the land of Uz, Job, his name,—and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.
Psalms 51:6Lo! faithfulness, hast thou desired in the inward parts, Yea, in the hidden part, wilt thou cause me to know, wisdom.
Proverbs 4:23Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.
2 Corinthians 5:11Knowing, then, the fear of the Lord, we persuade, men, but, unto God, are manifest,—I hope, moreover, even in your consciences, that we are manifest:
Hebrews 12:1Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,
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 →