2 Chronicles 21:7

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit Jehovah{H3068} would{H14} not destroy{H7843} the house{H1004} of David,{H1732} because of the covenant{H1285} that he had made{H3772} with David,{H1732} and as he promised{H559} to give{H5414} a lamp{H5216} to him and to his children{H1121} alway.{H3117}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit the LORD{H3068} would{H14}{(H8804)} not destroy{H7843}{(H8687)} the house{H1004} of David{H1732}, because of the covenant{H1285} that he had made{H3772}{(H8804)} with David{H1732}, and as he promised{H559}{(H8804)} to give{H5414}{(H8800)} a light{H5216} to him and to his sons{H1121} for ever{H3117}.

  • 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 And to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
  • 2 Sam 7:12-17 : 12 And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall come out of 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. If he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever. 17 According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:13 : 13 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen.
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his aid and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, saying, You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Although my house is not so with God; yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He does not make it grow.
  • 2 Kgs 8:19 : 19 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.
  • 2 Chr 22:11 : 11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in a 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 did not kill him.
  • Ps 89:28-34 : 28 My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; 32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 You have made void the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
  • Ps 132:11 : 11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.
  • Ps 132:17-18 : 17 There I will make the horn of David to bud; I have ordained a lamp for My anointed. 18 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon Himself His crown shall flourish.
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a breach in it for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 7 Thus says the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass.
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so there should not be day and night in their season, 21 Then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant, so that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me. 23 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus says the LORD: If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit 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
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    19 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
    2 verses
    80%

    4 Nevertheless, for David's sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem.

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

  • 2 Chr 7:18
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    18 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I have covenanted with David your father, saying, You shall not fail to have a man to be ruler in Israel.

  • Jer 33:17
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    17 For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    15 You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

    16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that your children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as you have walked before me.

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-25
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    24 Who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him: you also spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
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    34 However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes.

  • 1 Kgs 11:36
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    36 And to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4 That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
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    38 And it shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

    39 And I will for this afflict the offspring of David, but not forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:15-16
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    15 But my mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

    16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

  • Ps 132:11-12
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    11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
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    5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 21:7
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    7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
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    7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he remains steadfast to obey my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

  • 1 Chr 17:11-14
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    11 And it shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

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

    13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you:

    14 But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever: and his throne shall be established forevermore.

  • 2 Sam 7:13
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    13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
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    5 Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, to him and his sons by a covenant of salt?

  • 2 Sam 7:25-26
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    25 And now, O LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as you have said.

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

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    15 But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever: no, not when the LORD has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

  • Jer 33:21
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    21 Then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant, so that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
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    12 Nevertheless in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

    13 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 1 Kgs 2:45
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    45 And King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.

  • 1 Sam 24:21
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    21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.

  • Ps 89:35-36
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    35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.

    36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

  • 2 Chr 23:3
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    3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD has said of the sons of David.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
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    10 He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
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    19 And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O Lord GOD; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

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    30 Thus says the LORD, Write this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling anymore in Judah.

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    25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.

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    23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have said.

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    28 My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

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    14 That the kingdom might be lowly, that it might not lift itself up, but by keeping his covenant it might stand.

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    11 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that he will make you a house.

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    8 And tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you: yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in my eyes;

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    33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

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    17 There I will make the horn of David to bud; I have ordained a lamp for My anointed.