2 Chronicles 21:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, promising to give him and his descendants a lasting lamp.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    However, the LORD would not destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit Jehovah 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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Neuertheles ye LORDE wolde not destroie the house of Dauid, for the couenauntes sake, which he made wt Dauid, and acordinge as he had sayde, yt he wolde geue him and his children a lanterne for euermore.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenant that he had made with Dauid, and because he had promised to giue a light to him, and to his sonnes for euer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Howbeit the Lord woulde not destroy the house of Dauid, because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid, as he promised to geue a light to hym and to his sonnes for euer.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    However Yahweh 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 always.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and Jehovah hath not been willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant that He made with David, and as He had said to give to him a lamp, and to his sons -- all the days.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit Jehovah 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit Jehovah 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on the family of David, because of the agreement he had made with David, when he said he would give to him and to his sons a light for ever.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    However Yahweh 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 always.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But the LORD was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 'But to his son, I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen for Myself to put My name there.'
  • 2 Sam 7:12-17 : 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he sins, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men. 15 But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever. 17 Nathan spoke all these words and this entire vision to David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:13 : 13 'However, I will not tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.'
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to David's aid. He struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, "Never again will you go out with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel."
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.
  • 2 Kgs 8:19 : 19 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah for the sake of His servant David, because of the promise He had made to give a lamp to David and his descendants forever.
  • 2 Chr 22:11 : 11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king and the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death. She placed him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so she could not kill him.
  • Ps 89:28-34 : 28 I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 29 I will keep my steadfast love for him forever, and my covenant with him will remain faithful. 30 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. 31 If his sons forsake my law and do not walk according to my judgments, 32 if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments, 33 then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. 34 But I will not remove my steadfast love from him, nor will I betray my faithfulness.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 But you have rejected and spurned; you have been furious with your anointed one.
  • Ps 132:11 : 11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn back from it: 'From the fruit of your body I will set one upon your throne.'
  • Ps 132:17-18 : 17 'There I will cause a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.' 18 'I will clothe his enemies with shame, but upon him, his crown will shine brightly.'
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 'Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeal king over it.' 7 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It will not take place; it will not happen.
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 This is what the Lord says: If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night would not come at their appointed time, 21 then my covenant with David my servant and my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me could also be broken, so that David would no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. 22 Just as the stars in the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me. 23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation. 25 This is what the Lord says: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, 26 then I will reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and will not choose one of his descendants to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 8:19
    90%

    19Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah for the sake of His servant David, because of the promise He had made to give a lamp to David and his descendants forever.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by establishing Jerusalem.

    5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 2 Chr 7:18
    76%

    18Then I will establish your royal throne, as I made a covenant with David your father, saying, 'You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.'

  • Jer 33:17
    76%

    17For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15You have kept Your promise to Your servant David, my father. With Your mouth, You spoke it, and with Your hand, You have fulfilled it as it is today.

    16'Now, LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, what You promised him, saying: "You shall never lack a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons are careful in their ways, walking in My law as you have walked before Me."

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-25
    2 verses
    75%

    24'You have kept Your word to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You fulfilled with Your hand, as it is today.'

    25'Now, LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, what You promised him: “You shall never fail to have a descendant to sit on the throne of Israel before Me, if only your descendants are careful to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.”'

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
    74%

    34'However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will allow him to remain ruler all his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and statutes.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:36
    74%

    36'But to his son, I will give one tribe, so that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen for Myself to put My name there.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    74%

    4And you will ensure that the LORD fulfills His promise to me, saying, 'If your sons are careful to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
    2 verses
    74%

    38If you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, doing what is right in My eyes by keeping My statutes and commands, as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

    39I will humble David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

    16And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.

  • Ps 132:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn back from it: 'From the fruit of your body I will set one upon your throne.'

    12If your sons keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their sons also will sit upon your throne forever.

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
    74%

    5then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, 'You will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

  • 2 Sam 21:7
    74%

    7But the king spared Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath taken between David and Jonathan, son of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
    74%

    7I will establish his kingdom forever if he is resolute in keeping My commandments and ordinances, as he is doing today.’

  • 1 Chr 17:11-14
    4 verses
    74%

    11When your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

    12He will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.

    13I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never withdraw my steadfast love from him as I did from the one who was before you.

    14I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
    73%

    13He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
    73%

    5Don’t you know that the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his descendants by a covenant of salt?

  • 2 Sam 7:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and his house, and do as you have spoken.

    26May your name be magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and may the house of your servant David be established before you.

  • 1 Sam 20:15
    73%

    15And do not ever withdraw your kindness from my family, even when the LORD cuts off all of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.

  • Jer 33:21
    72%

    21then my covenant with David my servant and my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me could also be broken, so that David would no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12'Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.'

    13'However, I will not tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David My servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.'

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    71%

    7He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

  • 1 Kgs 2:45
    71%

    45'But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will remain secure before the LORD forever.'

  • 1 Sam 24:21
    71%

    21Now I know that you will surely be king, and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

  • Ps 89:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that has gone out of my lips.

    36Once I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David:

  • 2 Chr 23:3
    70%

    3The whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the house of God. Jehoiada said to them, 'Look, the king's son shall reign, as the Lord has spoken concerning the descendants of David.'

  • 1 Chr 22:10
    70%

    10He will build a house for my name, and he will be my son, and I will be his father. I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    70%

    19And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a long time to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!

  • Jer 22:30
    70%

    30This is what the LORD says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.

  • Ezek 37:25
    70%

    25They will live in the land I gave to My servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their descendants will dwell there forever, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

  • 1 Chr 17:23
    70%

    23"And now, LORD, let the word you have spoken concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised,

  • Ps 89:28
    70%

    28I will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

  • Ezek 17:14
    70%

    14This kingdom was made humble so that it would not exalt itself, and so that by keeping its covenant, it might stand firm.

  • 2 Sam 7:11
    70%

    11from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    69%

    8I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

  • Ps 89:33
    69%

    33then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

  • Ps 132:17
    69%

    17'There I will cause a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.'