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 from among the king's sons who were killed. And she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. And Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah) hid him from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.
Isaiah 7:6
Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and break her for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, the son of Tabeal.
Because
2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. For all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?
Psalm 89:28
I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.
Jeremiah 33:20
So says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,
As he promised
2 Samuel 7:12
And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come out of your bowels. And I will make his kingdom sure.
1 Kings 11:13
Only, 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.
2 Kings 8:19
Yet Jehovah would not destroy Judah for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give him a light to his sons forever.
Psalm 132:11
Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body I will set on the throne for you.
Luke 1:69
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,