2 Samuel 22:23
For all His judgments [are] before me, As to His statutes, I turn not from them.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.
24And I am perfect before Him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:1'And this [is] the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it,
Deuteronomy 7:12'And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,
Deuteronomy 17:20so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.
Psalms 119:6Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.
Psalms 119:30The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,
Psalms 119:102From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou — Thou hast directed 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 →