⁷ Yet the Lord would not destroy the house of David, because of the ^(A)covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his ^(B)sons forever.

³⁶ And to his son I will give one tribe, that ^(A)My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.

^12 (A)“When your days are fulfilled and you ^(B)rest with your fathers, ^(C)I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. ^13 (D)He shall build a house for My name, and I will ^(E)establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ^14 (F)I will be his Father, and he shall be ^(G)My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the ^[a]blows of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not depart from him, ^(H)as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ¹⁶ And ^(I)your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before ^[b]you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”

¹⁷ According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

^13 (A)However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give ^(B)one tribe to your son ^(C)for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem ^(D)which I have chosen.”

²⁰ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, ²¹ then ^(A)My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. ²² As ^(B)the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I ^(C)multiply the descendants of David My servant and the ^(D)Levites who minister to Me.’ ”

²³ Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁴ “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have ^(E)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.

²⁵ “Thus says the Lord: ‘If ^(F)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not ^(G)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, ^26 (H)then I will ^(I)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”

⁶ “Let us go up against Judah and ^[a]trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— ⁷ thus says the Lord God: