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Psalm 20:2
send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
2send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
3remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
4May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
Notice
Help from the sanctuary and support from Zion join worship to the day of trouble, as one person asks God to sustain another.
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Psalm 128:5May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.Both prayers look to the LORD for another person’s good, naming Zion as the place from which help or blessing comes.
Psalm 134:3May the LORD bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.Both prayers seek God’s provision from Zion, with Psalm 134 naming the giver as the maker of heaven and earth.
1 Kings 8:44–45“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and …Both texts connect prayer in danger with God’s chosen place of worship, whether the sanctuary or the house bearing his name.
Psalm 119:28My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.Both prayers seek strength from God: Psalm 20 asks support for another, while Psalm 119 asks strength amid sorrow.
Deuteronomy 33:7This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against …Both passages appeal to the LORD on another’s behalf, looking to him for help amid trouble or opposition.
Isaiah 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.Both texts associate Zion with God’s care, through support in the psalm and refuge for his afflicted people in Isaiah.
1 Kings 6:16He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for …The shared detail is the sanctuary: Psalm 20 seeks help from it, while Kings describes its inner construction.
Isaiah 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”Both texts name Zion in relation to God, as the source of sought support and the home of people praising his greatness.
2 Chronicles 20:8–9They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,Both passages name a sanctuary connected with God: the psalm seeks help from it, and Chronicles describes one built for his name.
Psalm 3:4I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.Both prayers associate God’s response with his holy dwelling, seeking help from the sanctuary or receiving an answer from his holy hill.
2 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.Zion is the shared place: Psalm 20 seeks support from there, while Samuel identifies it as David’s captured stronghold and city.
2 Samuel 6:17They brought in the LORD’s ark, and set it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace …Both passages concern a place of worship: Psalm 20 names the sanctuary, while Samuel describes the ark’s tent and David’s offerings.
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Needing support has a place in this prayer for Israel’s king. Even someone entrusted with great responsibility depends on help that God alone can grant.
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