2 Kings 8:19

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
  • 2 Sam 7:12-13 : 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, 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 loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel."
  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5 : 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; 5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 2 Kgs 19:34 : 34 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"
  • 2 Chr 21:7 : 7 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.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"
  • Jer 33:25-26 : 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away 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 cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
  • Hos 11:9 : 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and 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. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom."

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  • 2 Chr 21:7-8
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    7 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.

    8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

  • 1 Kgs 15:4-5
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    4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

    5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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

    25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have 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, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    16 "Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have 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, to walk in my law 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, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4 That Yahweh may establish 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,' he said, 'a man on the throne of Israel.'

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

    39 I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not forever.'"

  • Jer 33:17
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    17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

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

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

  • Ps 132:10-12
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    10 For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face of your anointed one.

    11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

    12 If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
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    12 Notwithstanding I will not do it in your days, 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 I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen."

  • Ps 89:33
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    33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

  • 2 Kgs 8:20
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    20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

  • 1 Sam 20:15
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    15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth."

  • 1 Chr 28:7
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    7 I will establish his kingdom forever, if he continues to do my commandments and my ordinances, as at this day.'

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

    36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

  • Jer 22:30
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    30 Thus says Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man who shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
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    8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

  • 2 Sam 7:15
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    15 but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
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    8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them."

  • 1 Sam 12:22
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    22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
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    18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

  • Ps 89:28-30
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    28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

    29 I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

    30 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances;

  • 1 Kgs 8:19
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    19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.'

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

  • 1 Chr 17:13-14
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    13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

    14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever."'"

  • Ezek 17:14
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    14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

  • 1 Chr 28:4
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    4 However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

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

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    8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says Yahweh.

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    19 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
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    19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!

  • 2 Kgs 13:23
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    23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

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    16 'Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'

  • 2 Chr 21:12
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    12 A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,