2 Chronicles 6:16
Hebrew Text— 2 Chronicles 6:16“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.’
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Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of 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.’
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 from 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.’
then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’
“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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.’
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
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,
then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;
Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, 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.
All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the oldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.