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2 Samuel 22:25

in 2 Samuel 22

So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

KJV

Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God had recompensed him, though not for his righteousness, as if that had merited any thing at the hand of God, yet according to his righteousness, which he was well pleased with, and had an eye to.

This site's exposition

kept myself from iniquity

on 2 Samuel 22:24-25

David repeats his claim: “I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity”. Matthew Henry ties it to a restraint the book has told, David’s refusal to kill Saul when he twice had the power. John Gill reads the repeat as a settled pattern of life.

This site's exposition

according to my cleanness

Verse 25 repeats verse 21 almost word for word, so the song closes this claim as it opened. Matthew Henry reads the LORD as having repaid a righteousness and cleanness God was pleased with, which David had not earned. In His sight places the measure with God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. See Gill on Psa 18:24.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֧שֶׁבand he repaid

    vaiyashevH7725 →1056 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לִ֖יto <the> me

    li

  • כְּצִדְקָתִ֑יaccording to righteousness my

    ketzidkatiH6666 →157 times

  • כְּבֹרִ֖יaccording to cleanness my

    kevoriH1252 →

  • לְנֶ֥גֶדto before

    lenegedH5048 →151 times

  • עֵינָֽיו׃eyes his

    ʾeinavH5869 →887 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 5:10

    For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 16:27

      For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

    • Revelation 22:12

      “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.

    • Ecclesiastes 12:14

      For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

    • Ephesians 6:8

      because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

    • Psalms 62:12

      and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

  • Through

    Isaiah 3:10

    Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 128:1–2

      Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

    • Hebrews 6:10

      For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

    • Galatians 6:7–8

      Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 22 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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