2 Samuel 22:21
New International Version
“The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

New Living Translation
The LORD rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.

English Standard Version
“The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

King James Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

New King James Version
“The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

New American Standard Bible
“The LORD has treated me in accordance with my righteousness; In accordance with the cleanliness of my hands He has repaid me.

NASB 1995
“The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

NASB 1977
“The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Amplified Bible
“The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has rewarded me.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; He repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

American Standard Version
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH rewarded me according to my righteousness and according to the purity of my hands he turned to me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.

Contemporary English Version
You are good to me, LORD, because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

English Revised Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD rewarded me because of my righteousness, because my hands are clean. He paid me back

Good News Translation
The LORD rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.

International Standard Version
The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness, rewarding me according to the degree of my innocence,

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH repays me, | According to my righteousness, | According to the cleanness of my hands, He returns to me.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

New American Bible
The LORD acknowledged my righteousness; rewarded my clean hands.

NET Bible
The LORD repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

World English Bible
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah recompenseth me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

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Context
David's Song of Deliverance
20He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me. 21The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands. 22For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 26:23
May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed.

2 Samuel 22:25
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

1 Kings 8:32
then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Psalm 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Proverbs 11:31
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

rewarded

2 Samuel 22:25
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

1 Samuel 26:23
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.

1 Kings 8:32
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

cleanness

Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Psalm 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

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2 Samuel 22
1. David's psalm of thanksgiving for God's deliverance and blessings














Verses 21-25. -

"Jehovah hath requited me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,
And sinned not so as to depart from my God.
For all his judgments have been kept in sight,

And from his statutes I have not departed.
I was also perfect towards him,
And was on my guard against my sin.
Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight."
It is impossible to suppose that these verses could have been written after David's fall. For while be acknowledges in them a tendency to sin, he affirms that he had been on his guard against it, and that he had ever kept God's statutes present before his view. However complete may be the penitent's recovery, yet can he never again be "perfect," the word applied to an animal without blemish, and therefore fit for sacrifice. The crime remains a blemish, even though the intense sorrow for the sin may make it the means of even attaining to a higher stage of spirituality and devotion. In ver. 22 the words literally are, "I have not sinned away from God," sin necessarily removing the sinner away from that nearness to God which is the privilege of the saint.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has rewarded me
יִגְמְלֵ֥נִי (yiḡ·mə·lê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 1580: To deal fully or adequately with, deal out to, wean, ripen

according to my righteousness;
כְּצִדְקָתִ֑י (kə·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯî)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

He has repaid me
יָשִׁ֥יב (yā·šîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

according to the cleanness
כְּבֹ֥ר (kə·ḇōr)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1252: Cleanness, pureness

of my hands.
יָדַ֖י (yā·ḏay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 3027: A hand


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