2 Samuel 7:29
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 7:29Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”
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So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
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.”
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
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.
Solomon the son of David was firmly established in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and made him exceedingly great.
You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
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.’
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.
Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
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.
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.
Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’
Then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.”
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
Solomon sat on David his father’s throne; and his kingdom was firmly established.
‘Since the day that I brought 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.’
that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
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.’
(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
I will afflict the offspring of David for this, but not forever.’ ”
When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
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;
Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.
Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, on which a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”
Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”