2 Samuel 7:12-16

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¹²When your days are over and you rest^(A) with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood,^(B) and I will establish his kingdom.^(C) ¹³He is the one who will build a house^(D) for my Name,^(E) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.^(F) ¹⁴I will be his father, and he will be my son.^(G) When he does wrong, I will punish him^(H) with a rod^(I) wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. ¹⁵But my love will never be taken away from him,^(J) as I took it away from Saul,^(K) whom I removed from before you. ¹⁶Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me^[a]; your throne^(L) will be established^(M) forever.^(N)’”

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2 Samuel 7:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts you

Acts 1:6-11

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⁶Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore^(A) the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.^(B) ⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;^(C) and you will be my witnesses^(D) in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,^(E) and to the ends of the earth.”^(F)

⁹After he said this, he was taken up^(G) before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^(H) stood beside them. ¹¹“Men of Galilee,”^(I) they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back^(J) in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

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