OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 6:42

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“LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

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Verse 42. Anointed. Cover not with shame the king, whom thou hast appointed, ( Bible.) nor reject my prayer. Tirinus.—Mercies, which thou hast shewn, or rather ( Calmet.) the acts of virtue which thy servant displayed. Syr. and so forth For thy servant David’s sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed. Psalms 131. In consideration of his merits, grant my request. Calmet.—Even Solomon, though at this time the object of God’s complacency, disdains not to screen himself under the merits of the departed saints. Bible.

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