DID YOU KNOW?

The Lord's Prayer as churches say it ends "For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours forever." Which Old Testament prayer has the closest words?

The answer

David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 29. Blessing God before the whole assembly, David says: "Yours, O Lord, are the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty", and a line later, "yours is the kingdom, O Lord" (1 Chronicles 29:11). The closing of the Lord's Prayer was probably added to Matthew later, shaped by those lines.

Why it’s interesting

Matthew 6:13 itself stops at "rescue us from the evil one". The closing stands in a footnote, which says some ancient copies of Matthew add it. Parts of David's prayer are still used in Christian and Jewish worship today.

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