Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good 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 between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- Ps 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
- Ps 107:17Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
- Deut 28:23–24And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
- Jer 2:17–19Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
- Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
- Lam 3:39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Lam 4:22The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
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