Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 18:24
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
24 27. The law of God’s dealings with men. The assertion of Psa 18:20 is repeated as the conclusion to be drawn from the review of David’s conduct in Psa 18:21-23, and is confirmed in Psa 18:25-27 by a statement of the general laws of God’s moral government. His attitude towards men is and must be conditioned by their attitude towards Him. Cp. 1Sa 2:30; 1Sa 15:23. There must be some moral correspondence in a man’s character to enable God to reveal Himself to Him as ‘merciful,’ ‘perfect,’ ‘pure.’
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me – By delivering me from my enemies. The divine interpositions in his behalf had been of the nature of a reward or recompense.
According to my righteousness – As if I were righteous; or, his acts of intervention have been such as are appropriate to a righteous life. The psalmist does not say that it was on account of his righteousness as if he had merited the favor of God, but that the interpositions in his behalf had been such as to show that God regarded him as righteous.
According to the cleanness of my hands – See the note at Psa 18:20.
In his eyesight – Margin, as in Hebrew, before his eyes. The idea is that God saw that he was upright.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
20-24. The statements ofinnocence, righteousness, &c., refer, doubtless, to his personaland official conduct and his purposes, during all the trials to whichhe was subjected in Saul’s persecutions and Absalom’s rebellions, aswell as the various wars in which he had been engaged as the head anddefender of God’s Church and people.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,…. Having proved and supported this proposition by the above reasons, it is repeated, for confirmation’s sake;
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight; this phrase, “in his eyesight”, is here added, to show that the righteousness of Christ was clean, pure, and spotless in the sight of God; in the eye of divine justice: hence those that are clothed with it are holy and unblamable, and irreprovable in his sight, Col 1:22.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(Heb.: 18:25-28) What was said in Psa 18:21 is again expressed here as a result of the foregoing, and substantiated in Psa 18:26, Psa 18:27. is a friend of God and man, just as pius is used of behaviour to men as well as towards God. the man (construct of ) of moral and religious completeness ( integri = integritatis, cf. Psa 15:2), i.e., of undivided devotion to God. (instead of which we find elsewhere, Psa 24:4; Psa 73:1) not one who is purified, but, in accordance with the reflexive primary meaning of Niph., one who is purifying himself, , 1Jo 3:3. (the opposite of ) one who is morally distorted, perverse. Freely formed Hithpaels are used with these attributive words to give expression to the corresponding self-manifestation: , (Ges. 54, 2, b), , and (to show one’s self or ). The fervent love of the godly man God requites with confiding love, the entire submission of the upright with a full measure of grace, the endeavour after purity by an unbeclouded charity (cf. Psa 73:1), moral perverseness by paradoxical judgments, giving the perverse over to his perverseness (Rom 1:28) and leading him by strange ways to final condemnation (Isa 29:14, cf. Lev 26:23.). The truth, which is here enunciated, is not that the conception which man forms of God is the reflected image of his own mind and heart, but that God’s conduct to man is the reflection of the relation in which man has placed himself to God; cf. 1Sa 2:30; 1Sa 15:23. This universal truth is illustrated and substantiated in Psa 18:28. The people who are bowed down by affliction experience God’s condescension, to their salvation; and their haughty oppressors, god’s exaltation, to their humiliation. Lofty, proud eyes are among the seven things that Jahve hateth, according to Pro 6:17. The judgment of God compels them to humble themselves with shame, Isa 2:11.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
24. Recompensed me according, etc. In Psa 18:24-26 the great principle of the divine government is clearly recognised, namely: that God will deal with men as they deal with one another. He will apply their own principles of action to themselves. See Pro 21:13; Job 22:6-10; Mat 6:15; Jas 2:13. The heaviest of all the divine judgments is the abandonment of a wicked man to his own wickedness. Rom 1:24; 2Th 2:9-12
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Ver. 24. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me ] See on Psa 18:20 . Reward and mercy are joined together in the second commandment; and, Psa 62:12 , it is a mercy in God to reward a man according to his work.
According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the Lord recompensed me: Rth 2:12, Mat 10:41, Mat 10:42, 2Th 1:6, 2Th 1:7, Heb 6:16
in his eyesight: Heb. before his eyes
Reciprocal: Jdg 1:33 – became Psa 18:20 – cleanness Psa 36:10 – and thy Isa 3:10 – they shall eat Isa 59:18 – According