2 Chronicles 6:42 BSB

2 Chronicles 6:42

O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

O Jehovah God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember thy lovingkindnesses to David thy servant.

KJV

O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Turn not away the face of thine anointed - “At least do me good; and if not for my sake, do it for thy own sake.” - Jarchi. These two last verses are not in the parallel place in 1 Kings 8:22-53. There are other differences between the two places in this prayer, but they are not of much consequence.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Lord, remember his merits, and accept of us, on the account of them. Remember the promises of the everlasting covenant, which are called the sure mercies of David, Isaiah lv, 3. This must be all our desire, all our hope, all our prayer, and all our plea; for it is all our salvation.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; and how can we express ourselves in better language to God than that of his own Spirit? But these words were of use, in a special manner, to direct Solomon, because they had reference to this very work that he was now doing.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The words are equivalent in meaning to this: Do not reject my present petitions; do not send me from Thy throne of grace dejected in countenance and disappointed in heart. remember the mercies of David thy servant--that is, the mercies promised to David, and in consideration of that promise, hear and answer my prayer (compare Ps 132:10).

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהִ֔ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תָּשֵׁ֖ב	ta.Shev	you turn away	H7725 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] faces of	H6440 →
מְשִׁיחֶ֑יךָ	me.shi.Chei.kha	anointed [one] your	H4899 →
זָכְרָ֕ה	za.khe.Rah	remember !	H2142 →
לְחַֽסְדֵ֖י	le.chas.Dei	<to> [the] covenant loyalti<es> of	H2617 →
דָּוִ֥יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
עַבְדֶּֽךָ׃ פ	'av.De.kha	servant your	H5650 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
leads to
- Jeremiah 32:40
  I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away…
- Matthew 11:28
  Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Proverbs 4:20
  My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
- John 10:27
  My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
- Acts 13:34
  In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
Through
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
leads to
- Matthew 26:59
  Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
- Revelation 17:12–14
  The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.
- Matthew 27:1
  When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonUnited MonarchyDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.

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