1 Kings 15:4

For David's sake, God still gives Abijam a 'lamp' in Jerusalem by preserving his line. God's covenant faithfulness sustains the dynasty despite the king's sin.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
• 2 Chr 21:7However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
• 2 Sam 7:12–16When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
• Ps 18:28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• 1 Kgs 11:12Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.
• Isa 37:35‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
• 1 Kgs 11:32(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
• Ps 132:17There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
• Gen 19:29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
• Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
• 2 Sam 21:17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
• Rom 11:28Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
• Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Isa 62:7and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
• Rev 22:16I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”
• Jer 33:20–26“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
• Mic 4:1–2But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
• Deut 4:37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
• Luke 1:69–79and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
• Jer 33:2“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name, says:
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
• Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
• Gen 26:5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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