2 Samuel 22:21

_THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS: ACCORDING TO THE CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS HATH HE RECOMPENSED ME._ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness ... Since I was engaged in a good cause, and, in my devoted adherence to it, acted sincerely and inflexibly on the principles of righteousness both toward God and toward Saul, my relentless enemy-so God, who bound Himself by solemn promise to succour and reward persons of this stamp, was pleased to protect and uphold me against the power and the machinations of my unjust oppressors. ACCORDING TO THE CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS HATH HE RECOMPENSED ME. And because I resolutely refused to free myself from all my troubles, by taking the life of Saul, when I was urged to do it, or by any unrighteous acts whatever, God was to pave the way for my deliverance in a far more honourable and effectual manner....

EXPOSITION DAVID'S PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. This song, which is identical with Psalms 18:1; though with many verbal differences, is so universally acknowledged as a genuine composition of King David, that the objections taken by one or two critics serve only to give us greater security by reminding us that the other side has been carefully argued. The differences between its form here and in the Book of Psalms suggest many important considerations with regard to textual criticism. From the absence of manuscripts, we have very scanty means of judging of the correctness of the ordinary Hebrew text. We have, indeed, abundant proof that the Jews took extreme care of their sacred text in the early centuries of our era; but we nevertheless find, most frequently in names, mistakes which have arisen from the care

THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS: ACCORDING TO THE CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS HATH HE RECOMPENSED ME. Psalms 18:20....

2. DAVID'S SONG OF DELIVERANCE CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The praise of Jehovah (2 Samuel 22:1)_ 2. The sorrows of the past (2 Samuel 22:5) 3. God's presence and intervention (2 Samuel 22:8) 4. Reward and approval (2 Samuel 22:21) 5. The judgment of the enemies (2 Samuel 22:29) 6. The exaltation above the adversaries (2 Samuel 22:44) 7. The praise of Jehovah ...

1 SAMUEL 22. PSALMS 18. This poem is dealt with in the commentary on the Psalms (Psalms book comments, and Psalms 18 chapter comments.)....

Jehovah's deliverance of his servant for his faithfulness 17. _He sent from above_ HE REACHED FORTH FROM ON HIGH: stretched out His hand and caught hold of the sinking man, and drew him out of the floods of calamity which were engulfing him. Cp. 2 Samuel 22:5; Psalms 144:7. _drew me_ A word found elsewhere only in Exodus 2:10, and suggesting a parallel, as though David would say, -He drew me out of the great waters of distress, as He drew Moses out of the waters of the Nile, to be the deliverer of His people....

AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD—THIS SONG— As this fine poem of David's occurs in the book of Psalms, we shall not make any remark upon it till we come to its proper place. See Psalms 18....

_The Lord's Rewards._ 2 Samuel 22:21-31 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 eyesight. 26 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, _and_ with the upright man thou will show thyself upright. 27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the forward thou wilt show thyself unsavory. 2

DAVID'S THANKSGIVING PSALM This beautiful poem has also been preserved as the Eighteenth Psalm. It probably belongs to the earlier portion of David's reign, when his conquests and God's promise (2 Samuel 7) were still fresh in his mind. See on Psalms 18....

DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 22 DAVID PRAISES THE *LORD V1 The *Lord had saved David from Saul and all his other enemies. So David sang this song to the *Lord. V2 David said, ‘The *Lord gives me security. So, he is like my rock and my strong place. He saves me. V3 My God is like a rock to me....