2 Chronicles 6:42
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 2:16Now therefore I ask one petition of thee: turn not away my face. And she said to him: Say on.
Psalms 84:10Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.
Psalms 89:28And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
Isaiah 61:1The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
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 →