2 Kings 8:19

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Summary

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

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1 Kings 11:36

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For I will defend this city and save it, for mine own sake and for David my servant's sake."

And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou laid to rest with thy fathers, then I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy body, and will establish his kingdom.

and will give his son one, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me, to put my name there.

Nevertheless, for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a light in Jerusalem; that he set up his son after him to continue Jerusalem,

Howbeit, the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.

Neverthelater, yet the Lord, he will give you a sign. Behold: a virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

And I will keep and save the city, sayeth he: for mine own, and for my servant David's sake.'"

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: If I have made no covenant with day and night, and given no statute unto heaven and earth;

therefore have I not turned me to destroy Ephraim in my wrathful displeasure. For I am God, and no man: I am even that holy one in the midst of thee, though I came not within the city.

He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the seat of his father David:

Light

and will give his son one, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me, to put my name there.