Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
Howbeit
Because
As he promised
Bible References
Howbeit
2 Chronicles 22:11
But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, th
Isaiah 7:6
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach in it for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel,
Because
2 Samuel 23:5
Truly my house is not so with God. Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, though he does not make it to grow.
Psalm 89:28
I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Jeremiah 33:20
Thus says LORD: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season,
As he promised
2 Samuel 7:12
When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shall sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, who shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Kings 11:13
However I will not rend away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
2 Kings 8:19
However LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his sons always.
Psalm 132:11
LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: From the fruit of thy body I will set upon thy throne.
Luke 1:69
And he raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his boy David,