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1 Chr. 17:13

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1 Chr. 17:13

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

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“Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth. I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first, and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house. It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.” ’ ” According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The fulfillment reading treats the father-son covenant language as royal-adoption formula that Hebrews applies to Jesus to establish his divine sonship above the angels (Hebrews 1:5). Assembling this text with Psalm 2:7 in a chain of 'son' passages is understood as revealing a christological coherence the writer believed was already embedded in Scripture. Proponents hold that the apostolic author interprets with inspired authority, so the convergence of royal-sonship texts on one figure reflects a genuine prophetic pattern. The repeated appeal to the same clause is read as scriptural emphasis rather than redundancy.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that this is again the Nathan oracle's father-son clause, paralleling 2 Samuel 7:14, and that in its own setting it is covenantal-adoption language for the Davidic king. Hebrews' use is analyzed as a testimonia or catena technique — gathering texts that share 'son' vocabulary and reading them christologically. On this view the interpretive selection, not the original wording, creates the messianic connection. Counting the same clause as a separate prophecy in both the Samuel and Chronicles passages is regarded as reproducing one meaning under multiple headings.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Hebrews 1:5 Direct quotation

    Hebrews 1:5 explicitly quotes the father-son formula (paralleled in this verse) alongside Psalm 2:7 as a formal citation.