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2 Samuel 22:21-28

King James Version (KJV)

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21. The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23. For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24. I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 25. Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 26. With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 27. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. 28. And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.

2 Samuel 22:21-28 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:21

Theological / Devotional

According to my righteousness. Anciently God promised the blessings of health and prosperity as an immediate reward for obedience (Deut. 28:1-14).

The cleanness of my hands. The hands are the instruments of action. The Lord looks upon the deeds of men as well as their hearts (Ps. 15:2-5 ; 24:4, 5). At the time when these words were written David could speak openly of the cleanness of his hands, but that was not possible after his sin against Bath-sheba and Uriah the Hittite. We may have here an indication that this psalm was written after the defeat of the Ammonites and their allies (2 Sam. 10) but before David’s sin with Bath-sheba (ch. 11; see on ch. 11:1).

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