2 Chronicles 6:42
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the pious deeds of David thy servant.
Leeser Tanakh
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 there is one petition I am going to ask of thee, do not turn me away. And she said unto him, Speak.
Psalms 84:10(84:11) For better is a day in thy courts than a thousand [elsewhere]: I would rather choose to wait at the threshold of the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms 89:28(89:29) For evermore will I keep for him my kindness, and my covenant shall stand faithfully with him.
Psalms 132:10For the sake of David thy servant turn not away the face of thy anointed.
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release;
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 →