Parallel Verses

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.

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.”

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 hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 12 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. 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.


Cross References

Psalm 89:30-35

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

Psalm 102:28

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalm 115:14

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 59:21

As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

Luke 1:32-33

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

Acts 2:30

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

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