KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Samuel 22:23–25
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2 Samuel 22:23
23For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
23For all his iudgements were before me: and as for his Statutes, I did not depart from them.
2 Samuel 22:24
24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
24I was also vpright †before him: and haue kept my selfe from mine iniquitie.
- Hebr. to him.
2 Samuel 22:25
25Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
25Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me, according to my righteousnesse: according to my cleannesse †in his eye sight.
- Hebr. before his eyes.
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 22:23
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow. To leave; to forsake; to abandon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 22:24
Straight or erect; also honest, just, and faithful to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Retained, guarded, observed, or preserved.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
2 Samuel 22:25
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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recompensed
Rewarded; requited.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The state of being clean, pure, or free from defilement.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organ of sight; also to look upon or observe attentively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The act or power of seeing; something seen; a view, appearance, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 23
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Open the full verse study102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
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Open the full verse study30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
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Open the full verse study14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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Open the full verse study1NOW 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:
2That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
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Open the full verse study6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
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Open the full verse study12¶ 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:
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Open the full verse study11Beware 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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Open the full verse study6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
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Open the full verse study128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
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Open the full verse study13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
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Open the full verse study6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Open the full verse study8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study9¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
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Open the full verse study1AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
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Open the full verse study1THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
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Open the full verse study4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Open the full verse study11Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
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Open the full verse study47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
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Open the full verse study23¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
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Open the full verse study6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
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Open the full verse study11For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study21The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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Open the full verse study10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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Open the full verse study7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
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Open the full verse study10Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
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Open the full verse study21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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