2 Samuel 22:23
in 2 Samuel 22For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For all his ordinances were before me; And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
KJV
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
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This verse in 2 Samuel 22
Commentary
5 notes on this verseGod 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
rewarded me according to my righteousness
on 2 Samuel 22:21-23
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness stands beside chapters eleven and twelve of this same book, where David took another man's wife and had her husband killed, and the honest reader feels the tension before any commentator names it. Two readings hold the verses together: some place the song's composition early, from the years before Bathsheba, when the claim to clean hands still matched David's conduct against Saul, and Albert Barnes reads it so. Others take righteousness here as covenant loyalty, a life given on the whole to God's statutes and judgments rather than a claim of a record without fault, and Matthew Henry reads it that way, righteousness he was well pleased with rather than righteousness that earned anything.
This site's exposition
all His ordinances are before me
Ordinances and statutes are the language of Deuteronomy, the law a king was to copy and read all his days at Deuteronomy 17:18-19. David claims to have kept that law in view. John Gill reads the verse with Psalm 18:22.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
By this it appeared that he was upright before God, or to God (in his sight, and with an eye to him), that he kept himself from his own iniquity, not only from that particular sin of killing Saul when it was in the power of his hand to do it, but, in general, he was afraid of sin and watchful against it, and made conscience of what he said and did.
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. See Gill on Psa 18:22.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו | mishpoto | judgments his | H4941 → | 422 times |
| לְנֶגְדִּ֑י | lenegdi | [are] to before me | H5048 → | 151 times |
| וְחֻקֹּתָ֖יו | vechukotav | and statutes his | H2708 → | |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אָס֥וּר | ʾasur | I turn aside | H5493 → | 299 times |
| מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ | mimenah | from it | H4480 → | 1188 times |
כִּ֥יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יוjudgments his
mishpotoH4941 →422 times
לְנֶגְדִּ֑י[are] to before me
lenegdiH5048 →151 times
וְחֻקֹּתָ֖יוand statutes his
vechukotavH2708 →
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
אָס֥וּרI turn aside
ʾasurH5493 →299 times
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃from it
mimenahH4480 →1188 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
it leads to
- Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- 1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.
- John 14:21
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 14:15
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- Matthew 12:50
Through
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.
it leads to
- John 3:19–21
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- Proverbs 1:29
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
- Psalms 119:29
Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
- John 3:19–21
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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About 2 Samuel
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.