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2 Chronicles 6:41–42 and Psalm 132:8–10

Solomon's prayer ends with a psalm

Chronicles ends Solomon's prayer with words from Psalm 132, replacing the Exodus ending of 1 Kings 8:51–53. Small changes adapt the psalm.

Read 2 Chronicles 6:41–42 and Psalm 132:8–10 in every edition

Manuscript variant: witnesses differ in wording

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✓ contains it · ✕ does not · ❝ quotes part of it · ⓘ reports on manuscripts · ▢ pages lost · – no copy survives

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  • Translation
Hebrew
  1. 1 Kings 8:51–53 (parallel account, Masoretic Text)Kings
  2. Psalm 132:8–10 (parallel account, Masoretic Text)Psalter (date debated)
  3. Original ChroniclesComposed c. 4th century BC (debated)
  4. Masoretic Text (Leningrad Codex)AD 1008Descends, through lost copies, from Original Chronicles
Greek
  1. Septuagint, 2 Paraleipomena (library text: Giguet's French)Translated c. 2nd century BCTranslated from a Hebrew text of Chronicles
Latin
    English
    1. King James Bible1611Translated from printed Masoretic Hebrew

    Every witness, in order

    1. Kings

      1 Kings 8:51–53 (parallel account, Masoretic Text)

      ✓ Contains this passage

      How the site knows this: Read in the site's library text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, a digital transcription of the Leningrad Codex, quoted here in English.

      For they be thy people… which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt

      Kings' ending.

    2. Psalter (date debated)

      Psalm 132:8–10 (parallel account, Masoretic Text)

      ✓ Contains this passage

      How the site knows this: Read in the site's library text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, a digital transcription of the Leningrad Codex, quoted here in English.

      Arise, O LORD, into thy rest… Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy. For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

    3. Composed c. 4th century BC (debated)

      Original Chronicles

      – No copy survives

      No original survives.

    4. Translated c. 2nd century BC

      Septuagint, 2 Paraleipomena (library text: Giguet's French)

      ✓ Contains this passageTranslated from a Hebrew text of Chronicles

      How the site knows this: Known here only through a translation.

      Levez-vous, ô Seigneur mon Dieu, pour entrer dans ce lieu de repos avec l'arche de votre force

      One Greek text (Vaticanus type) via Giguet's French; not checked against a critical Greek edition.

    5. AD 1008

      Masoretic Text (Leningrad Codex)

      ✓ Contains this passageDescends, through lost copies, from Original Chronicles

      How the site knows this: Read in the site's library text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, a digital transcription of the Leningrad Codex.

      כֹּהֲנֶיךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים יִלְבְּשׁוּ תְשׁוּעָה וַחֲסִידֶיךָ יִשְׂמְחוּ בַטּוֹב

      let your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and your faithful rejoice in goodness

    6. 1611

      King James Bible

      ✓ Contains this passageTranslated from printed Masoretic Hebrew

      How the site knows this: Read in the site's library text: King James Version (1769 text).

      let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness… remember the mercies of David thy servant.

    What changed, and why

    Psalm 132 celebrates David's search for a resting place for the ark; Chronicles uses it to close the temple's dedication. "Salvation" comes from Psalm 132:16.

    What the evidence shows

    • Independently documented2 Chronicles 6:41–42 adapts Psalm 132:8–10.

    Sources

      Related lessons

      • Solomon's Temple Prayer →Standing on a bronze platform before the assembly, Solomon kneels and prays the dedication prayer of 1 Kings 8, asking God to hear prayers toward this house in sin, defeat, drought, plague, war and exile, and from foreigners. Chronicles ends the prayer not with the Exodus but with words from Psalm 132: "Arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place… remember the mercies of David thy servant."