2 Chronicles 7:18
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18 then I will establish your royal throne, as I made a covenant[a] with your father David saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor to rule over Israel.’(A)
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- 7.18 Heb lacks a covenant
2 Chronicles 6:16
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16 Therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant my father David that which you promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’(A)
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Jeremiah 33:20-21
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20 Thus says the Lord: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,(A) 21 only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.(B)
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2 Samuel 7:13-16
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13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(A) 14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.(B) 15 But I will not take[a] my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.(C) 16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me;[b] your throne shall be established forever.”(D)
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Jeremiah 33:25-26
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25 Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth(A) 26 would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.(B)
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Psalm 132:11-12
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11 The Lord swore to David a sure oath
from which he will not turn back:
“One of the sons of your body
I will set on your throne.(A)
12 If your sons keep my covenant
and my decrees that I shall teach them,
their sons also, forevermore,
shall sit on your throne.”(B)
Psalm 89:28-40
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28 Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him,
and my covenant with him will stand firm.(A)
29 I will establish his line forever
and his throne as long as the heavens endure.(B)
30 If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my ordinances,(C)
31 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with scourges,(D)
33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.(E)
34 I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.(F)
35 Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.(G)
36 His line shall continue forever,
and his throne endure before me like the sun.(H)
37 It shall be established forever like the moon,
an enduring witness in the skies.” Selah
38 But now you have spurned and rejected him;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.(I)
39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.(J)
40 You have broken through all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.(K)
1 Kings 9:5
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5 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor on the throne of Israel.’(A)
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