2 Samuel 22:24

_I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY._ I was also upright before him. In private, as well as in public, in the wildest and most sequestered solitude, as well as in the populous city, it was my reigning desire, my aim and endeavour, to walk so as to please God. AND HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY - i:e., either from the influence of inherent corruption, that it might not acquire ascendancy over my heart, or drive me into acts of open and deliberate wickedness in my conduct; or, from perpetrating the iniquity to which natural feeling and the force of circumstances tended so powerfully to stimulate me as a man, a soldier, and a destined monarch-namely, of killing Saul, and so taking just revenge on this malignant and implacable enemy, as well as freeing myself from a life of constant perils and painful necessities (see the note at...

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

I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY. Psalms 18:23....

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.)....

UPRIGHT. blameless. Hebrew. _tamim._ INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah._ App-44....

The integrity of David's life and its reward 22. _For I have kept_, &c. He goes on to substantiate the assertion of the preceding verse....

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

22:24 upright (c-4) Or 'perfect,' as Genesis 6:9 ; Genesis 17:1 ; Deuteronomy 18:13 ....