2 Samuel 7:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

And when

1 Kings 2:1

1 Kings 8:20

Sleep

I will set

General references

1 Kings 1:26

1 Kings 8:19

Psalm 89:4

Bible References

And when

When the days of David were drawn nigh, and he should die; he charged Solomon his son, saying,

And the LORD hath made good his word that he spake. For I stood up in the room of David my father, and sat on the seat of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

Sleep

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

For else when my lord the king is laid to rest with his fathers, I and my son Solomon shall be sinners."

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof.

Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

Behold, I show a mystery unto you: we shall not all sleep: but we shall all be changed,

For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again: even so them also which sleep by Jesus, will God bring again with him.

I will set

And behold, the word of the LORD spake unto Abram saying, "He shall not be thine heir, but one that shall come out of thine own body shall be thine heir."

But when thy days be expired, that thou must go after thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons and will settle his kingdom.

His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

The LORD hath made a faithful oath unto David, and he shall not shrink from it, "Of the fruit of the body shall I set upon thy seat.

He shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same: to establish it with equity and righteousness, from thenceforth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.

There shall come a rod out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch shall spring out of his root.

saying, "What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he?" They said unto him, "The son of David."

Therefore seeing he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him, that the fruit of his loins should sit on his seat - in that Christ should rise again in the flesh -

General references

But me, thy servant, and Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon he hath not called.

Nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come out of thy loins, he shall build a house for my name.'

Thy seed will I establish forever, and set up thy throne from one generation to another." Selah.