Psalms 132:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.””
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“If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 132:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 2:4and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
- 1 Kings 8:25Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
- 2 Chronicles 7:18then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’
- Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
- Psalms 102:28The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”
- Psalms 115:14May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
- Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:17For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
- Luke 1:32He 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,
- Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
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