2 Chronicles 6:42

New King James Version

42 "O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed;Remember the mercies of Your servant David." Psalms 132:8-10 ">[fn]

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord God, do not reject your anointed one;remember the promises to your servant David.

Hebrew Names Version
LORD God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] lovingkindnesses to David your servant.

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

English Standard Version
O Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."

New Century Version
Lord God, do not reject your appointed one. Remember your love for your servant David."

New English Translation
O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!"

Amplified Bible
"O LORD God, do not turn away and reject the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness and faithfulness to Your servant David."

New American Standard Bible
"LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your faithfulness to Your servant David."

World English Bible
Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] lovingkindnesses to David your servant.

Geneva Bible (1587)
O Lord God, refuse not the face of thine anoynted: remember the mercies promised to Dauid thy seruant.

Legacy Standard Bible
"O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David."

Berean Standard Bible
O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David."

Contemporary English Version
Always remember the love you had for your servant David, so that you will not reject your chosen kings.

Complete Jewish Bible
" Adonai , God, don't turn away the face of your anointed one; remember the mercies of your servant David."

Darby Translation
Jehovah Elohim, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember mercies to David thy servant.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord God, accept your anointed king. Remember your loyal servant David."

George Lamsa Translation
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thy anointed one; remember the mercies of David thy servant.

Good News Translation
Lord God, do not reject the king you have chosen. Remember the love you had for your servant David."

Lexham English Bible
O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!"

Literal Translation
O Jehovah God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember the good deeds of Your servant David.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE God, turne not awaye the face of thine anoynted: thinke vpon the mercies of thy seruaunt Dauid.

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

Bible in Basic English
O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Lord God, turne not away the face of thyne annoynted: remember the mercies whiche thou hast promised to Dauid thy seruaunt.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
O LORD God, turn not away the face of Thine anointed; remember the good deeds of David Thy servant.'

King James Version (1611)
O Lord God, turne not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of Dauid thy seruant.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of thy servant David.

English Revised Version
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord God, turne thou not a weie the face of thi crist; haue thou mynde on the mercyes of Dauid thi seruaunt.

Update Bible Version
O Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed one: remember [your] loving-kindnesses to David your slave.

Webster's Bible Translation
O LORD God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

New Living Translation
O Lord God, do not reject the king you have anointed. Remember your unfailing love for your servant David."

New Life Bible
O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your chosen one. Remember Your loving-kindness to Your servant David."

New Revised Standard
O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your steadfast love for your servant David."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O Yahweh God! do not turn away thy face from thine Anointed One, - oh remember lovingkindness unto David thy servant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord God, turn not away the face of thy anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

Revised Standard Version
O LORD God, do not turn away the face of thy anointed one! Remember thy steadfast love for David thy servant."

Young's Literal Translation
O Jehovah God, turn not back the face of Thine anointed, be mindful of the kind acts of David Thy servant.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"O LORD God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David."

Contextual Overview

¹² Then Solomon 1 Kings 8:22)">[fn] stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands ¹³ (for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven); ¹⁴ and he said: "LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. ¹⁵ You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. ¹⁶ Therefore, LORD God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk in My law as you have walked before Me.' ¹⁷ And now, O LORD God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David. ¹⁸ "But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple [fn] which I have built! ¹⁹ Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O LORD my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You: ²⁰ that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. ²¹ And may You hear the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 2:16

turn not: That is, "reject not thine anointed;" or, "repulse him not," agreeably to the interpretation of this phrase in the Syriac and Arabic versions.

thine anointed: 1 Kings 1:34, Psalms 2:2, Isaiah 61:1

remember: Psalms 132:1, Isaiah 55:3, Acts 13:34

the mercies: Or, as Dr. Geddes renders, "the pious deeds of thy servant David." The Syriac has, "the good actions of thy servant.

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:59 - let these my words Psalms 25:6 - Remember Psalms 84:9 - the face Psalms 132:8 - Arise Psalms 132:10 - turn not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In Kings, a different conclusion takes the place of these verses. The document from which both writers copied contained the full prayer of dedication, which each givcs in a somewhat abbreviated form.

2 Chronicles 6:41

Thy resting place - i. e., the holy of holies. Solomon follows closely the words of David his father, spoken probably when he brought the ark into Jerusalem. See the marginal references.

2 Chronicles 6:42

Turn not away the face of thine anointed - i. e., make him not to hide his face through shame at having his prayers rejected (compare the 1 Kings 2:16 note).

The mercies of David - i. e., “God’s mercies toward David.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 6:42. 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.