If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I shall teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore.”
Parallel translations
- WEB If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
- KJV If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
- BSB If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”
- NASB “If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also will sit upon your throne forever.”
- NLT If your descendants obey the terms of my covenant and the laws that I teach them, then your royal line will continue forever and ever.”
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Quick answer
The promise of an enduring throne is tied to the descendants keeping God's covenant. It holds together God's faithfulness and the call to covenant obedience.
Overview
God's oath includes the condition that David's sons keep His covenant and testimony, with the promise of an everlasting throne attached. The earthly line often failed this obedience, exposing the need for a faithful King. Christ alone perfectly kept the covenant, securing the eternal throne promised to David.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 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 89:30–35If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
- Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
- 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,
- Ps 102:28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
- Ps 115:14May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
- 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.
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