Parallel Verses

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.

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.”

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 has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.
12 “If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”
13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.


Cross References

Psalm 89:30-35

“If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My judgments,

Psalm 102:28

“The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”

Psalm 115:14

May the Lord give you increase,
You and your children.

Isaiah 9:7

There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace,
On the throne of David and over his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness
From then on and forevermore.
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 which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”

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

And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

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