Acts 13:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

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  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
  • Ps 89:2-4 : 2 For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens. 3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
  • Rom 6:9 : 9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
  • Ps 89:19-37 : 19 Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people. 20 I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head. 21 My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength. 22 The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil. 23 I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows. 24 But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up. 25 I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 27 And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth. 28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. 29 His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens. 30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; 31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; 32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. 33 But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. 34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. 35 I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. 36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me. 37 It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
  • 2 Sam 7:14-16 : 14 I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men; 15 But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you. 16 And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
  • Jer 33:15-17 : 15 In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land. 16 In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness. 17 For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;
  • Jer 33:26 : 26 Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
  • Ezek 34:23-24 : 23 And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper. 24 And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
  • Ezek 37:24-25 : 24 And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them. 25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
  • Hos 3:5 : 5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
  • Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
  • Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
  • Acts 13:37 : 37 But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

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