2 Chronicles 21:7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 I will leave his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.
  • 2 Sam 7:12-17 : 12 When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. 14 I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings. 15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’” 17 Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:13 : 13 But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying,“You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
  • 2 Kgs 8:19 : 19 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.
  • 2 Chr 22:11 : 11 So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and stole him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.
  • Ps 89:28-34 : 28 I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure. 29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. 30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations, 31 if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments, 32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises. 33 But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise. 34 I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.
  • Ps 89:39 : 39 You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
  • Ps 132:11 : 11 The LORD made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said,“I will place one of your descendants on your throne.
  • Ps 132:17-18 : 17 There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue. 18 I will humiliate his enemies, and his crown will shine.
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 They say,“Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” 7 For this reason the Sovereign LORD says:“It will not take place; it will not happen.
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 “I, the LORD, make the following promise:‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant 21 could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me. 22 I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’” 23 The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah another time. 24 “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying,‘The LORD has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. 25 But I, the LORD, make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth. 26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them.”
  • Luke 1:69 : 69 For he 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 in 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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    19But 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
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    4Nevertheless for David’s sake the LORD his God maintained his dynasty in Jerusalem by giving him a son to succeed him and by protecting Jerusalem.

    5He did this because David had done what he approved and had not disregarded any of his commandments his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.

  • 2 Chr 7:18
    76%

    18Then I will establish your dynasty, just as I promised your father David,‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’

  • Jer 33:17
    76%

    17For I, the LORD, promise:“David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    15You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

    16Now, O LORD God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said,‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-25
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    24You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

    25Now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said,‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
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    34I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand. I will allow him to be ruler for the rest of his life for the sake of my chosen servant David who kept my commandments and rules.

  • 1 Kgs 11:36
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    36I will leave his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4and the LORD will fulfill his promise to me,‘If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,’ he promised,‘you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
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    38You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I approve, and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.

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

  • 2 Sam 7:15-16
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    15But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

    16Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.’”

  • Ps 132:11-12
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    11The LORD made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said,“I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

    12If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

  • 1 Kgs 9:5
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    5Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David,‘You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

  • 2 Sam 21:7
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    7The king had mercy on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, in light of the LORD’s oath that had been taken between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
    74%

    7I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’

  • 1 Chr 17:11-14
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    74%

    11When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom.

    12He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

    13I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you.

    14I will put him in permanent charge of my house and my kingdom; his dynasty will be permanent.”’”

  • 2 Sam 7:13
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    13He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
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    5Don’t you realize that the LORD God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal covenant?

  • 2 Sam 7:25-26
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    25So now, O LORD God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,

    26so you may gain lasting fame, as people say,‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you,

  • 1 Sam 20:15
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    15Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

  • Jer 33:21
    72%

    21could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
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    72%

    12However, for your father David’s sake I will not do this while you are alive. I will tear it away from your son’s hand instead.

    13But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    71%

    7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 1 Kgs 2:45
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    45But King Solomon will be empowered and David’s dynasty will endure permanently before the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 24:21
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    21So now swear to me in the LORD’s name that you will not kill my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

  • Ps 89:35-36
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    35Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

    36His dynasty will last forever. His throne will endure before me, like the sun,

  • 2 Chr 23:3
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    3and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them,“The king’s son will rule, just as the LORD promised David’s descendants.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
    70%

    10He will build a temple to honor me; he will become my son, and I will become his father. I will grant to his dynasty permanent rule over Israel.’

  • 2 Sam 7:19
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    19And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD?

  • Jer 22:30
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    30The LORD says,“Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.”

  • Ezek 37:25
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    25They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

  • 1 Chr 17:23
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    23So now, O LORD, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality! Do as you promised,

  • Ps 89:28
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    28I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.

  • Ezek 17:14
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    14so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

  • 2 Sam 7:11
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    11and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
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    8I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.

  • Ps 89:33
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    33But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.

  • Ps 132:17
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    17There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue.