“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
- BSB Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
- NKJV Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you.
- NASB ‘Your wrongdoings have turned these away, And your sins have kept good away from you.
- NLT Your wickedness has deprived you of these wonderful blessings. Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
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Quick answer
David obeys exactly and strikes the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. His precise obedience yields a sweeping, God-given victory.
Overview
David does just as the Lord commanded and routs the Philistines across a wide region from Geba to Gezer. His careful obedience is the key to the decisive triumph. The verse reinforces the chapter's lesson that David's success flows from seeking and following the Lord, foreshadowing the perfectly obedient King whose victories secure His people forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Isa 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
- Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Ps 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
- Deut 28:23–24Your sky that is over your head will be brass, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
- Jer 2:17–19“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
- Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead. You refused to be ashamed.
- Lam 3:39Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Lam 4:22The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.
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