2 Chronicles 6:41

Yahweh our God, come and stay in this place with the Sacred Chest, the chest that shows that you are powerful. Yahweh God, cause your priests to know clearly that you have blessed them. Cause us your people to rejoice because of all the good things that you do for us.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

In Context

40“Now, my God, look at us and listen to us as we pray to you in this place.

42Yahweh God, do not reject me the king whom you have appointed to be the king of Israel; do not forget that you greatly loved David, who served you very well.”

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Cross References

Joshua 3:13As for the priests who are carrying the chest, as soon as they put their feet into the Jordan River, the water will stop flowing. It will pile up because I will cause it to be blocked upstream.”

1 Chronicles 28:2David stood up and said, “My fellow Israelis, listen to me. I wanted [IDM] to build a temple to be a place where we would put the Sacred Chest of Yahweh, where it would stay permanently. And I made plans to build it.

Psalms 65:4You are pleased with those whom you have chosen to live close to your temple. We are happy with all the blessings that we receive from worshiping in your sacred temple.

Psalms 110:2Yahweh also said to him, “I will extend your power as king from Jerusalem to other lands; you will rule over all your enemies.

Psalms 132:9I want/desire that the righteous behavior of your priests will always be evident, just like the beautiful robes that they wear [MET], and that your people will always shout joyfully.

Isaiah 59:16He was disgusted when he saw that no one tried to help those who were being treated cruelly. So he used his own power [MTY] to rescue them; it is because he is always righteous that he did that [PRS].

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 →

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