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1 Chronicles 17:12

He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17:12 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
  • KJV He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
  • NKJV He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
  • NASB He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
  • NLT He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for me. And I will secure his throne forever.

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Quick answer

This son will build God's house, and God will establish his throne forever. The temple-builder's throne is promised eternal permanence.

Overview

God promises that David's son will build the house David longed to build, and that his throne will stand forever. Solomon built the temple, but only Christ's throne is truly eternal. The forever language signals that this covenant points beyond any earthly king to the Messiah's unending reign.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Dan 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
  • Isa 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
  • 1 Kgs 5:5So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
  • Acts 7:47–48But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
  • Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
  • 1 Chr 28:6–10And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
  • 1 Chr 22:9–10But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
  • Ps 89:36–37his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
  • Ps 89:29I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
  • Zech 6:12–13And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the temple of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 3:1–4Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  • 1 Cor 15:25For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
  • Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
  • Col 2:9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
  • Ezra 5:11And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.
  • John 2:19–21Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

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Christ at the center

The genealogies and the everlasting covenant with David trace the single thread of promise running through the generations straight to the Christ in whom the line reaches its goal.

How 1 Chronicles 17:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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