Psalms 89:3

God recalls His covenant made with His chosen one and His oath sworn to David. God's promise to David is a sworn, binding covenant.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
• 2 Sam 7:10–16And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
• Ps 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
• Jer 33:20–21“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
• Ps 89:34–35I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
• 1 Kgs 8:16‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
• Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
• 2 Sam 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
• Heb 7:21but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
• 2 Sam 3:9May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:
• Jer 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
• 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,
• Matt 12:18–21“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
• Ezek 34:23–24I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
• Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
• Isa 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
• Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
• Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
• Ps 78:70He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
• Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
• Ps 89:19You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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