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Psalms 132:10
10For Your servant David’s sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed.
Psalms 132:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
- New International Version (NIV)For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For the sake of your servant David, do not reject the king you have anointed.
Context of Psalms 132:10
8Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength. 9Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy. For Your servant David’s sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed. 11The Lord has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: “I will set upon your throne the fruit of your body. 12If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I shall teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore.”
Read all of Psalms 132Psalms 132:10 word by word
בַּ֭עֲבוּר דָּוִ֣ד עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ אַל־תָּ֝שֵׁ֗ב פְּנֵ֣י מְשִׁיחֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 132:10
- 1 Kings 11:12Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
- 1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;
- 2 Kings 19:34‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”
- Hosea 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.
- Psalms 84:9O God, behold our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed.
- Psalms 89:38But You have cast off and abhorred, You have been furious with Your anointed.
- 2 Chronicles 6:42“O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your Anointed; Remember the mercies of Your servant David.”
Commentaries on Psalms 132:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10For thy servant David‘s sake - Because of the promise made to him; because of the zeal which he has shown in securing a place for the ark. Let it not be in vain that he has shown such a regard to the honor of God; let not the promises made to him fail. Such a prayer is proper now. There is nothing wrong in our beseeching God to carry out and accomplish the purposes cherished by his church for promoting the honor of his name; or for a child to pray that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10These verses are a quotation from Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple (2 Chronicles 6:41–42).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1210-12. For thy servant David's sake--that is, On account of the promise made to him. turn ... anointed--Repulse not him who, as David's descendant, pleads the promise to perpetuate his royal line. After reciting the promise, substantially from 2Sa 7:12-16 (compare Ac 2:30, &c.), an additional plea,Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 10turn not away the face of Your anointed Solomon, when he comes to place the Ark therein.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 132
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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