2 Samuel 7:12-16
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12 (A)when your days have been completed and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He it is[a] who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. 14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will reprove him with a human rod and with human punishments;(B) 15 but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul who was before you.(C) 16 Your house and your kingdom are firm forever before me; your throne shall be firmly established forever.[b](D)
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1 Kings 11:36
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36 I will give his son one tribe, that David my servant may always have a holding before me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen, to set my name there.
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1 Kings 15:4
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4 Yet for David’s sake the Lord, his God, gave him a holding in Jerusalem, raising up his son after him and permitting Jerusalem to endure,
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