2 Samuel 22:23
New International Version
All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.

New Living Translation
I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees.

English Standard Version
For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

Berean Standard Bible
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

King James Bible
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

New King James Version
For all His judgments were before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

New American Standard Bible
“For all His ordinances were before me, And as for His statutes, I did not deviate from them.

NASB 1995
“For all His ordinances were before me, And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

NASB 1977
“For all His ordinances were before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

Legacy Standard Bible
For all His judgments were before me, And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

Amplified Bible
“For all His judgments (legal decisions) were before me, And from His statutes I did not turn aside.

Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me and have not disregarded his statutes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mind and have not disregarded His statutes.

American Standard Version
For all his ordinances were before me; And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because all his judgments were in front of me and his laws I have not put away from me

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For all his judgments and his ordinances were before me: I departed not from them.

Contemporary English Version
I keep your laws in mind and never turn away from your teachings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.

English Revised Version
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because all his judgments are in front of me and I have not turned away from his laws.

Good News Translation
I have observed all his laws; I have not disobeyed his commands.

International Standard Version
and because all of his decrees remain in my thoughts, I have not turned aside from his statutes,

JPS Tanakh 1917
For all His ordinances were before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

Literal Standard Version
For all His judgments [are] before me, | As for His statutes, I do not turn from them.

Majority Standard Bible
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

New American Bible
His laws were all before me, his decrees I did not cast aside.

NET Bible
For I am aware of all his regulations, and I do not reject his rules.

New Revised Standard Version
For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

New Heart English Bible
For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

World English Bible
For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

Young's Literal Translation
For all His judgments are before me, As to His statutes, I turn not from them.

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Context
David's Song of Deliverance
22For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes. 24And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Psalm 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

Psalm 119:102
I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.


Treasury of Scripture

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

For all

Psalm 119:6,86,128
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments…

Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

judgments

Deuteronomy 6:1,2
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: …

Deuteronomy 7:12
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

Psalm 19:8,9
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes…

I did not

Deuteronomy 8:11
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

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2 Samuel 22
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(23) His statutes, I did not depart from them.--The psalm, by a very slight change in the original, has "I did not put away his statutes from me." The former is the more common form, the latter suits better the parallelism here.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

all
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

His ordinances [are]
מִשְׁפָּטָ֖יו (miš·pā·ṭāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

before me;
לְנֶגְדִּ֑י (lə·neḡ·dî)
Preposition-l | first person common singular
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

I have not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

disregarded
אָס֥וּר (’ā·sūr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

His statutes.
וְחֻקֹּתָ֖יו (wə·ḥuq·qō·ṯāw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute


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