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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Samuel 22:21

The Lord rewarded mee according to my righteousnesse: according to the cleannesse of my hands, hath hee recompensed me.

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.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
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.
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 rocke and my fortresse, and my deliuerer: 3 The God of my rocke, in him will I trust: hee is my shield, and the horne of my saluation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Sauiour; thou sauest me from violence. 4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saued from mine enemies. 5 When the waues of death compassed me: the floods of vngodly men made me afraid. 6 The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me. 7 In my distresse I called vpon the Lord, and cryed to my God, and hee did heare my voice out of his Temple, and my crie did enter into his eares. 8 Then the earth shooke and trembled: the foundations of heauen mooued and shooke, because hee was wroth. 9 There went vp a smoake out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth deuoured: coales were kindled by it. 10 Hee bowed the heauens also and came downe: and darkenesse was vnder his feete. 11 And he rode vpon a Cherub, and did flie: and hee was seene vpon the wings of the winde.

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
And it came to passe after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. And hee said, Beholde, heere I am.
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand vpon the lad, neither do thou any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withhelde thy sonne, thine onely sonne from mee.
Genesis 24:10
And the seruant tooke ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, ( for all the goods of his master were in his hand) and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, vnto the citie of Nahor.
Numbers 23:7
And he tooke vp his parable, and said, Balak the King of Moab hath brought mee from Aram, out of the mountaines of the East, saying, Come, curse me Iacob, and come, defie Israel.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Iob, and that man was perfect and vpright, and one that feared God, and eschewed euill.
Job 32:2
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu, the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram: against Iob was his wrath kindled, because he iustified himselfe rather then 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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