2 Chronicles 1:8

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;

Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.

He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;

but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.” ’ ”

Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

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

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Jesse became the father of King David. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been Uriah’s wife.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”