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2 Samuel 22:21

The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Integrity;   The Topic Concordance - Affliction;   Frowardness;   Iniquity;   Mercy;   Obedience;   Pride/arrogance;   Purity;   Recompense/restitution;   Salvation;   Uprightness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Poetry;   Salvation, Saviour;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel first and second books of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord rewarded meaccording to my righteousness;he repaid meaccording to the cleanness of my hands.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
King James Version
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
English Standard Version
"The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
New Century Version
"The Lord spared me because I did what was right. Because I have not done evil, he has rewarded me.
New English Translation
The Lord repaid me for my godly deeds; he rewarded my blameless behavior.
Amplified Bible
"The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has rewarded 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse: according to the purenesse of mine handes he recompensed me.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness;According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
Contemporary English Version
You are good to me, Lord , because I do right, and you reward me because I am innocent.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai rewarded me for my uprightness, he repaid me because my hands were clean.
Darby Translation
Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord rewarded me for doing what is right. He was good to me because I am innocent.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Good News Translation
The Lord rewards me because I do what is right; he blesses me because I am innocent.
Literal Translation
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands, He has repaid me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE shal rewarde me after my righteousnes, and acordinge to the clennes of my handes shal he recompence me.
American Standard Version
Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde rewarded me according to my righteousnesse: accordyng to the purenes of my hands he recompensed me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord rewarded mee according to my righteousnesse: according to the cleannesse of my hands, hath hee recompensed me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.
English Revised Version
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord schal yelde to me vp my riytfulnesse; and he schal yelde to me vp, `ethir aftir, the clennesse of myn hondis.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah recompenseth me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
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; According to the cleanness of my hands has 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 Living Translation
The Lord rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.
New Life Bible
"The Lord has paid me for being right with Him. He has paid me for my clean hands.
New Revised Standard
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh rewarded me, according to my righteousness - according to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me:
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.
Revised Standard Version
"The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
THE MESSAGE
God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start. Indeed, I've kept alert to God 's ways; I haven't taken God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Contextual Overview

2 And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine; 3 My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man. 4 I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me. 5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear; 6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me. 7 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears. 8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry. 9 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it. 10 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet. 11 And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rewarded: 2 Samuel 22:25, 1 Samuel 26:23, 1 Kings 8:32, Psalms 7:3, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 7:8, Psalms 18:20-25, Psalms 19:11, 1 Corinthians 15:58

cleanness: Job 17:9, Psalms 24:4, James 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:33 - righteousness

Cross-References

Genesis 22:1
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
Numbers 23:7
And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
Job 32:2
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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