2 Kings 8:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit Jehovah{H3068} would{H14} not destroy{H7843} Judah,{H3063} for David{H1732} his servant's{H5650} sake, as he promised{H559} him to give{H5414} unto him a lamp{H5216} for his children{H1121} alway.{H3117}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Yet the LORD{H3068} would{H14}{(H8804)} not destroy{H7843}{(H8687)} Judah{H3063} for David{H1732} his servant's{H5650} sake, as he promised{H559}{(H8804)} him to give{H5414}{(H8800)} him alway{H3117} a light{H5216}, and to his children{H1121}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Neuertheles the LORDE wolde not destroye Iuda for his seruaunt Dauids sake, as he promysed him, to geue him euer a lanterne amoge his childre.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yet the Lord would not destroy Iudah, for Dauid his seruants sake, as he had promised him to giue him a light, and to his children for euer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the Lord woulde not destroy Iuda and that because of Dauid his seruaunt, as he promised him, to geue him alway a light among his children.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his children.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as He said to him, to give to him a lamp -- to his sons all the days.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his children alway.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his children alway.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on Judah, because of David his servant, to whom he had given his word that he would have a light for ever.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of his servant David to whom he had promised 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 7:12-13 : 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.
  • 2 Sam 7:15 : 15 But my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
  • 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."
  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5 : 4 Nevertheless, 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. 5 For 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 Kgs 19:34 : 34 I will defend this city and save it for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.
  • 2 Chr 21:7 : 7 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.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.
  • Jer 33:25-26 : 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.
  • Hos 11:9 : 9 I will not carry out My fierce anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
  • Luke 1:32-33 : 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 21:7-8
    2 verses
    90%

    7 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.

    8 During Jehoram's reign, Edom rebelled against Judah's control and appointed their own king.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 Nevertheless, 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.

    5 For 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-25
    2 verses
    76%

    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.”'

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

    15 You 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 11:34
    75%

    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%

    4 And 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
    73%

    38 If 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.

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

  • Jer 33:17
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
    72%

    5 then 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 Chr 7:18
    72%

    18 Then 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.'

  • Ps 132:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10 For the sake of Your servant David, do not turn away the face of Your anointed one.

    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.'

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

  • 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.'

  • Ps 89:33
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
    71%

    20 In Jehoram's time, Edom rebelled against Judah's control and set up their own king.

  • 1 Sam 20:15
    71%

    15 And 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.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 89:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Jer 22:30
    70%

    30 This 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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    69%

    8 I 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.

  • 2 Sam 7:15
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
    69%

    8 I will no longer make Israel's feet wander from the land I gave their fathers, if only they will carefully do everything I commanded them and keep the whole law that My servant Moses gave them.'

  • 1 Sam 12:22
    69%

    22 For the LORD will not abandon His people for the sake of His great name, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.

  • 2 Sam 21:7
    69%

    7 But 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.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    69%

    18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

  • Ps 89:28-30
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:19
    69%

    19 Nevertheless, you will not build the house yourself; rather, your son, your own descendant, will build the house for My name.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
    68%

    5 Don’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?

  • 1 Chr 17:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 I 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.

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

  • Ezek 17:14
    68%

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

  • 1 Chr 28:4
    68%

    4 Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and within the house of Judah, He was pleased to choose my father's family. And among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.

  • Jer 33:21
    68%

    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.

  • Amos 9:8
    68%

    8 'Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,' declares the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    68%

    19 But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    68%

    19 And 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!

  • 2 Kgs 13:23
    68%

    23 But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. To this day He has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from His presence.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
    68%

    16 'Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where My name might be, but I chose David to rule My people Israel.'

  • 2 Chr 21:12
    68%

    12 Then Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah, which said, "This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: Because you have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah..."

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