1 Kings 15:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,

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  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
  • 2 Chr 21:7 : 7 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.
  • Ps 18:28 : 28 For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
  • Ps 87:5 : 5 And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
  • Isa 9:7 : 7 To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!'
  • Isa 37:35 : 35 And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
  • Isa 62:7 : 7 And give not silence to Him, Till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem A praise in the earth.
  • Jer 33:2 : 2 Thus said Jehovah its maker, Jehovah its former, at establishing it, Jehovah `is' His name:
  • Jer 33:20-26 : 20 `Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season, 21 Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers. 22 As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.' 23 And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying: 24 `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them! 25 Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant `is' not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed -- 26 Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back `to' their captivity, and have pitied them.'
  • Mic 4:1-2 : 1 And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, The mount of the house of Jehovah Is established above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the hills, And flowed unto it have peoples. 2 And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
  • Matt 16:18 : 18 `And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
  • Luke 1:69-79 : 69 And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, 70 As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; 71 Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, 72 To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, 73 An oath that He sware to Abraham our father, 74 To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, 75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life. 76 And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways. 77 To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins, 78 Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us, 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • Rom 11:28 : 28 As regards, indeed, the good tidings, `they are' enemies on your account; and as regards the choice -- beloved on account of the fathers;
  • Rev 22:16 : 16 `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
  • Gen 19:29 : 29 And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:
  • 2 Sam 7:12-16 : 12 `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom; 13 He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age. 14 I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, 15 and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee, 16 and stedfast `is' thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'
  • 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 and Abishai son of Zeruiah giveth help to him, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, `Thou dost not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.'
  • 1 Kgs 11:12 : 12 `Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;
  • 1 Kgs 11:32 : 32 and the one tribe he hath for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.

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  • 2 Chr 21:7
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    7and 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.

  • 2 Kgs 8:19
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    19and 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.

  • 1 Kgs 11:36
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    36and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
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    5in that David did that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life -- only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4so that Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake unto me, saying, If thy sons observe their way to walk before Me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul; saying, There is not cut off a man of thine from the throne of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:16
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    16`And now, O Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel, only, if thy sons watch their way to walk in My law, as thou hast walked before Me.

  • 2 Sam 5:12
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    12and David knoweth that Jehovah hath established him for king over Israel, and that He hath lifted up his kingdom, because of His people Israel.

  • 1 Chr 23:25
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    25for David said, `Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given rest to His people, and He doth tabernacle in Jerusalem unto the age;'

  • Ps 132:17
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    17There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
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    25`And now, Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel -- only, if thy sons watch their way, to walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me.

  • Ps 132:11
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    11Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

  • 1 Kgs 9:4-5
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    4`And thou -- if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee -- My statutes and My judgments thou dost keep --

    5then I have established the throne of thy kingdom over Israel -- to the age, as I spake unto David thy father, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from `being' on the throne of Israel.

  • Jer 33:17
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    17For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

  • 1 Chr 17:14
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    14and I have established him in My house, and in My kingdom unto the age, and his throne is established unto the age.'

  • 1 Chr 14:2
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    2And David knoweth that Jehovah hath established him for king over Israel, because of the lifting up on high of his kingdom, for the sake of His people Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;

  • 1 Kgs 2:45
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    45and king Solomon `is' blessed, and the throne of David is established before Jehovah unto the age.'

  • Ps 122:5
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    5For there have sat thrones of judgment, Thrones of the house of David.

  • 2 Chr 7:18
    72%

    18then I have established the throne of thy kingdom, as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There is not cut off a man to thee -- a ruler in Israel;

  • 2 Sam 3:10
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    10to cause the kingdom to pass over from the house of Saul, and to raise up the throne of David over Israel, and over Judah, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:15-18
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    15And he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who spake by His mouth with David my father, and by His hand hath fulfilled `it', saying,

    16From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

    17`And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

    18and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart;

  • 2 Chr 6:6-8
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    6and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

    7`And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel,

    8and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

  • 2 Sam 7:16
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    16and stedfast `is' thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:38-39
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    38and it hath been, if thou dost hear all that I command thee, and hast walked in My ways, and done that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commands, as did David My servant, that I have been with thee, and have built for thee a stedfast house, as I built for David, and have given to thee Israel,

    39and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not all the days.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12`Only, in thy days I do it not, for the sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son I rend it;

    13only all the kingdom I do not rend away; one tribe I give to thy son, for the sake of David My servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, that I have chosen.'

  • 1 Chr 17:11-12
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    11and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom,

    12he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age;

  • 1 Chr 15:1
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    1And he maketh for himself houses in the city of David, and prepareth a place for the ark of God, and stretcheth out for it a tent.

  • 1 Chr 28:7
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    7and I have established his kingdom to the age, if he is strong to do My commands, and My judgments, as at this day.

  • 1 Chr 22:10
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    10he doth build a house to My name, and he is to Me for a son, and I `am' to him for a father, and I have established the throne of his kingdom over Israel unto the age.

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
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    34`And I do not take the whole of the kingdom out of his hand, for prince I make him all days of his life, for the sake of David My servant whom I chose, who kept My commands and My statutes;

  • 2 Chr 1:4
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    4but the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-Jearim, when David prepared for it, for he stretched out for it a tent in Jerusalem;

  • 2 Sam 7:25
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    25`And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;

  • 1 Chr 28:4
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    4`And Jehovah, God of Israel, doth fix on me out of all the house of my father to be for king over Israel to the age, for on Judah He hath fixed for a leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, on me, `me' He hath been pleased to make king over all Israel;

  • 2 Chr 6:4
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    4and he saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who hath spoken with His mouth with David my father, and with His hands hath fulfilled `it', saying:

  • 1 Kgs 11:32
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    32and the one tribe he hath for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 13:5
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    5Is it not for you to know that Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given the kingdom to David over Israel to the age, to him and to his sons -- a covenant of salt?

  • 1 Chr 17:24
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    24and let it be stedfast, and Thy name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, is God to Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee;

  • 2 Sam 7:13
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    13He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age.

  • Jer 22:4
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    4For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
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    5and lo, I am saying to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son whom I appoint in thy stead on thy throne, he doth build the house for My name.

  • 2 Kgs 21:4
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    4And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah said, `In Jerusalem I put My name.'