2 Samuel 7:13

David's offspring would build the house for God's name, and God would establish his kingdom's throne forever. The promise joins temple-building to an everlasting kingdom.

Cross-references · 19

• Luke 1:31–33Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
• 1 Kgs 8:19Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.’
• 2 Sam 7:16Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”
• Ps 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
• 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.
• 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.’
• 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.
• Ps 89:36–37his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
• 1 Kgs 6:12“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
• 1 Chr 17:11–12And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
• Zech 6:13Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
• Ps 89:29I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
• Heb 3:3For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
• 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Chr 28:10Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
• Isa 49:8This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
• 1 Chr 28:6–7And 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.
• Ps 89:21My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
• Matt 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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