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2 Samuel 7:12-14
New Catholic Bible
2 Samuel 7:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 [a]And when it is time for you to be with your ancestors, I will designate as your heir one of your sons to succeed you, and I shall establish his kingdom forever. 13 It is he who will build a house in honor of my name, and I shall ensure that his royal throne will stand firm forever.
14 “ ‘ “I shall be a father to him, and he will be my son. If he does wrong, I shall punish him as any father would do and not fail to inflict chastisements upon him.
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- 2 Samuel 7:12 The divine adoption of Solomon, one of whose descendants is the Messiah, will ensure the perpetuity of the kingdom, is a first ray of light on the divine sonship of Christ (see Heb 1:5). It is an impressive fact that while the kingdom of Israel, formed after Solomon’s death, saw no less than eight changes of dynasty in a little more than two centuries (931–721 B.C.), the Davidic dynasty was the only one to rule in Judah for three and a half centuries (931–587 B.C.), even though it, too, was subject to palace conspiracies.
