Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
- KJV Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
- NKJV Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons, Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
- NASB ¶In place of your fathers will be your sons; You shall make them princes in all the earth.
- NLT Your sons will become kings like their father. You will make them rulers over many lands.
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Quick answer
The king's sons will succeed his fathers and be made princes throughout the earth. It matters because it promises an enduring royal line, fulfilled in Christ's universal reign.
Overview
Addressed to the king, this promises a flourishing dynasty whose offspring will rule widely. The dynastic hope reflects God's covenant with David. It finds its fulfillment in Christ, whose kingdom fills the earth and whose people are made a royal priesthood reigning under Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Rev 5:10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
- Rev 1:6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Isa 60:1–5Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Isa 49:21–22Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
- Isa 54:1–5“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Rev 20:6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
- Mark 10:29–30“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
- Matt 19:29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- Ps 22:30Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
- Phil 3:7–8But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- Gal 4:26–27But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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