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Psalm 132:10
For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
8Arise, LORD, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
9Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!
10For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
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An anointed king still needs God’s favor: the prayer asks that he be received, appealing to God’s bond with David his servant.
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Psalm 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.Both passages link God’s favor toward his anointed king with David; Psalm 18 praises the loving kindness sought in Psalm 132.
Isaiah 10:27It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the …The shared thread is anointing language; Isaiah speaks of a broken yoke, while the psalm pleads for God’s anointed.
2 Chronicles 6:42“LORD God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”Both prayers ask God not to turn away his anointed, appealing to his relationship with David his servant.
1 Kings 2:16Now I ask one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”Both contain a plea against refusal, though the psalm addresses God and the petition in Kings addresses another person.
2 Kings 19:34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”Both name David as God’s servant and appeal to his sake, one seeking favor and the other promising the city’s defense.
1 Kings 11:12–13Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.David’s sake is the shared ground for seeking favor in the psalm and delaying the loss of the kingdom in Kings.
Psalm 84:9Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.Both prayers ask God to regard the face of his anointed with favor.
Hosea 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the LORD and to his blessings …Both link seeking the LORD’s favor with David, named as God’s servant in the psalm and as king in Hosea.
1 Kings 11:34“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who …Both appeal to David as God’s servant, connecting God’s regard for him with the treatment of a king.
1 Kings 15:4–5Nevertheless for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;Both connect favor toward a king with David’s sake; Kings describes that favor through a son succeeding him and Jerusalem being established.
Psalm 89:38–39But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.Psalm 132 asks God not to turn away his anointed; Psalm 89 laments that God has rejected his anointed.
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The king’s anointing does not put him beyond the need for prayer. This plea rests on God’s bond with David, whose throne depends on what God has sworn.
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