2 Chronicles 6:42
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
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Cross References
1 Kings 2:16And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
Psalms 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 89:28My mercy 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 GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 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 →