Psalm 89:3

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Summary

Psalm 89:3

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Made

My chosen

Matthew 12:18

Sworn

Hebrews 7:21

Bible References

Made

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant it and they shall continue in one place and shall move no more, neither shall wicked people trouble them any more as they did at the beginning,

And is not mine house so with God? In that he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, perfect in all points. And in that he shall fulfill all that is healthsome unto me, and all my desires thereto;

'From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city among any of the tribes of Israel, to build a house, that my name might be there: But I have chosen David to be ruler over my people Israel.'

Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

but they shall do service unto God their LORD, and to David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

"Thus sayeth the LORD: May the covenant which I have made with day and night be broken, that there should not be day and night in due season?

I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

But afterward shall the children of Israel convert, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king: and in the latter days they shall worship the LORD, and his loving-kindness.

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:

My chosen

Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds.

Behold now therefore, this is my servant whom I will keep to myself: mine elect; In whom my soul shall be pacified. I will give him my spirit, that he may show forth judgment and equity among the Gentiles.

And, lo, there came a voice from heaven, saying, "This is that, my beloved son, in whom is my delight."

"Behold my child, whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul delighteth: I will put my spirit on him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

Sworn

I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David.

The LORD hath made a faithful oath unto David, and he shall not shrink from it, "Of the fruit of the body shall I set upon thy seat.

So do God to Abner, and so thereto: except that as the LORD hath sworn to David, I so do to him,

Therefore seeing he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn with an oath to him, that the fruit of his loins should sit on his seat - in that Christ should rise again in the flesh -

Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."