Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

If your sons keep My covenant
and My decrees that I will teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

New American Standard Bible

“If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

King James Version

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.

International Standard Version

If your sons keep my covenant and my statutes that I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

A Conservative Version

If thy sons will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their sons also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


“If your children will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their children also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

Darby Translation

If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.

Julia Smith Translation

If thy sons shall watch my covenant and my testimonies, these I shall teach them; also their sons even to forever shall sit upon the throne to thee forever.

King James 2000

If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If your sons will heed my covenant and my testimonies that I will teach them, their sons also forever will sit on your throne."

Modern King James verseion

If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons shall also sit on your throne forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thy children will keep my covenant, and my testimony that I shall learn them; their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore."

NET Bible

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

New Heart English Bible

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

The Emphasized Bible

If thy sons keep my covenant, and my testimony which I will teach them, even their sons, unto futurity, shall sit on thy throne.

Webster

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.

World English Bible

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

David And Zion Chosen

11 The Lord swore an oath to David,
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.
12 If your sons keep My covenant
and My decrees that I will teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”
13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:


Cross References

Psalm 89:30-35

If his sons forsake My instruction
and do not live by My ordinances,

Psalm 102:28

Your servants’ children will dwell securely,
and their offspring will be established before You.”

Psalm 115:14

May the Lord add to your numbers,
both yours and your children’s.

Isaiah 9:7

The dominion will be vast,
and its prosperity will never end.
He will reign on the throne of David
and over his kingdom,
to establish and sustain it
with justice and righteousness from now on and forever.
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 who is on you, and My words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth of your children, or from the mouth of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the Lord.

Luke 1:32-33

He will be great
and will be called the Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give Him
the throne of His father David.

Acts 2:30

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

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