O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”
- KJV O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
- NKJV “O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant David.”
- NASB “Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your faithfulness to Your servant David.”
- NLT O Lord God, do not reject the king you have anointed. Remember your unfailing love for your servant David.”
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Quick answer
Solomon pleaded that God not turn away his anointed but remember his steadfast love to David. He appealed to God's covenant mercies as the basis of his prayer.
Overview
Solomon closed by asking God, for the sake of his promises to David, not to reject the anointed king. His final appeal rested on God's faithful covenant love rather than human merit. This plea for the sake of God's anointed ultimately points to Christ, the true Anointed One, in whom God's faithful love to David reaches its everlasting fulfillment.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 55:3Incline 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.
- Ps 132:1A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,
- Ps 89:24My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
- Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
- 1 Kgs 2:16So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.
- Acts 13:34In 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.’
- Ps 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
- Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- 1 Kgs 1:34There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
- Ps 132:10For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
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