2 Samuel 22:21
Jehovah recompenseth me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20And He bringeth me out to a large place, He draweth me out for He delighted in me.
22For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:25And Jehovah returneth to me, According to my righteousness, According to my cleanness before His eyes.
1 Kings 8:32then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Psalms 7:3O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
Psalms 18:20Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.
Psalms 24:4The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.
James 4:8draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
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 →