2 Samuel 7:12-13

God's Covenant with David

12 m When your days are fulfilled and n you lie down with your fathers, o I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 p He shall build a house for my name, and q I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 2:1
    When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 1:21
    Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.
    1 Kings 2:10
    Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
    Acts 13:36
    For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption.
    Deuteronomy 31:16
    And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:20
    Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
    Psalms 132:11
    The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 5:5
    And so I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.
    1 Kings 6:12
    Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
    1 Kings 8:19
    Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.
    1 Chronicles 22:10
    He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.
    1 Chronicles 28:6
    He said to me, 'It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
  5. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:16
    And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'
    Psalms 89:4
    I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
    Psalms 89:29
    I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
    Psalms 89:36 - 37
    His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
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