However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
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However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
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Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
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Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 21:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 11:36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
- Psalms 132:17-18 I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”
- 2 Samuel 7:12-17 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ” Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
- Luke 1:69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David
- Luke 1:79 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
- 1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- 2 Samuel 21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
- 2 Samuel 23:5 Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- 2 Kings 8:19 However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
- 2 Chronicles 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stealthily rescued him from among the king’s sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she didn’t kill him.
- Psalms 89:28-34 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- Psalms 89:39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
- Psalms 132:11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
- Isaiah 7:6-7 “Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.” This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
- Jeremiah 33:20-26 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time; then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ” Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.” Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the…
2Ch 21:7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
Ver. 7. As he promised to give a light to him.] Successionem stirpis regiae et splendidae. Out of this "light," or lamp, came at length that "Sun of righteousness," "the Light of the world," Christ Jesus. See on 2Ki 8:19.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Because of the covenant that he had made with…
Because of the covenant that he had made with David; for which, in 2Ki 8:19, it is for David his servant’s sake, i.e. not for David’s merits, but for God’s free promise and covenant, as it is here explained.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. To give a light to him] To…
Verse 7. To give a light to him] To give him a descendant.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Lamp; heir and successor. C. Psalm cxxxi. 17.
Lamp; heir and successor. C. Psalm cxxxi. 17.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. the house of David] In 2 Kin. Judah,…
7. the house of David] In 2 Kin. Judah, a term sparingly used in Chron.; cp. 2Ch_11:3 (note).
a light] R.V. a lamp. Thus figuratively applied the Heb. word is written nîr; ordinarily “lamp” is nçr in Heb.
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for ever] R.V. alway (as in 2 Kin.). Heb. literally, “all the days.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) The Lord would not destroy the house of…
(7) The Lord would not destroy the house of David . . .—An exegetical (not arbitrary, as Thenius asserts) expansion of “The Lord would not destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant” (Kings).
The covenant that he had made with David.—Literally, for David. So Isa_55:3, “I will make an everlasting covenant for you, even the sure mercies of David.” This construction is generally used of the stronger imposing conditions on the weaker. (Comp. Jos_9:6; 1Sa_11:1-2.) In the Pentateuch, God makes a covenant with (im or eth) His people (Gen_15:16; Exo_24:8).
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To give a light to him and to his sons.—Literally, a lamp. Some critics find another “deviation” here, and render 1Ki_8:19, “to give a lamp to him in respect of his sons.” But many Hebrew MSS., and the LXX., Vulg., and Targum of that passage, read, “and to his sons,” as here. Syriac, “On account of the oaths which he sware to David, to give to him a burning lamp, and to his sons all the days.”
For ever.—All the days.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The covenant a light his sons for ever (so…
The covenant a light his sons for ever (so 2Sa_7:12, 2Sa_7:13, 2Sa_7:15, 16 23:5; 1Ki_8:20, 1Ki_8:24, 1Ki_8:25; 1Ch_22:10; Psa_132:11, Psa_132:12; Isa_55:3; Act_13:34)
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