Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for all time, and your throne will be secure forever.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’”
- KJV And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
- BSB Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”
- NKJV And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
- NASB Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
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Quick answer
God promised David that his house, kingdom, and throne would be established forever. This is the climactic pledge of the Davidic covenant.
Overview
The repeated word 'forever' signals a promise that outruns any merely human dynasty, which historically ended in exile. The New Testament resolves the tension by identifying Jesus, the eternal Son of David, as the One in whom the throne is established forever (Luke 1:32-33). David's everlasting kingdom is finally realized in the reign of Christ.
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Cross-references · 16
- Luke 1:32–33He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
- Ps 89:36–37His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
- 2 Sam 7:13He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 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.
- Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
- Dan 7:14There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
- Ps 45:6Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
- Dan 2:44In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
- 1 Chr 17:13–14I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
- Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Heb 1:8But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
- John 12:34The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
- 2 Kgs 19:34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
- Ps 72:5They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
- Ps 72:17–19His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
- 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.
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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