But they shall serve the Lord their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them.
Parallel translations
- WEB but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
- KJV But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
- BSB Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- NASB But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- NLT For my people will serve the Lord their God and their king descended from David— the king I will raise up for them.
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Quick answer
Freed from foreign masters, God's people will serve the LORD and 'David their king,' whom God will raise up. This points to the promised Messiah from David's line.
Overview
Spoken long after King David's death, the promise of 'David their king' looks ahead to the Messiah, the Son of David. Reformed and broadly evangelical interpreters see this fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the eternal King who reigns over a restored people. True freedom is found in glad service to God under His anointed King.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Hos 3:5Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
- Isa 55:3–5Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Luke 1:69and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
- Acts 13:34“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
- Ezek 37:23–25neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
- Acts 2:30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
- Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Acts 13:23From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
- Ezek 34:23–24I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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