2 Chronicles 6:42
Jehovah Elohim, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember mercies to David thy servant.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 2:16And now I ask one petition of thee; refuse me not. And she said to him, Speak.
Psalms 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 89:28My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;
Psalms 132:10For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:13-42
12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest… Read the whole commentary →