If you are careful to obey these commands, then the kings who follow in David's succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to come through the gates of this palace, as will their officials and their subjects.

The Lord says, "Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah."

"I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land.

But just listen to what the Lord has to say about the king who occupies David's throne and all your fellow countrymen who are still living in this city of Jerusalem and were not carried off into exile with you.

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant of David. "'He will do what is just and right in the land.

For I, the Lord, promise: "David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel.

could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.

I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.'"

Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them."

So the Lord says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, "None of his line will occupy the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to be exposed to scorching heat by day and frost by night.

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them -- namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

"'My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it -- they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.

"In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut of David. I will seal its gaps, repair its ruins, and restore it to what it was like in days gone by.

The Lord also will deliver the homes of Judah first, so that the splendor of the kingship of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not exceed that of Judah.

On that day the Lord himself will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the weakest among them will be like mighty David, and the dynasty of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.

"I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

The land will mourn, clan by clan -- the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;

"In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

and Jesse the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon (by the wife of Uriah),

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.

When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!"

He said to them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry --

All the crowds were amazed and said, "Could this one be the Son of David?"

A Canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is horribly demon-possessed!"

Two blind men were sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "The son of David."

He said to them, "How then does David by the Spirit call him 'Lord,' saying,

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

He said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry --

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Many scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!"

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?

David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

If David himself calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin's name was Mary.

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.

For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

Jesus answered them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry --

So he called out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

But he said to them, "How is it that they say that the Christ is David's son?

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand,

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"

Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

"Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas -- who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus --

For David says about him, 'I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

"Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: 'I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.'

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'

For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David; such is my gospel,

So God again ordains a certain day, "Today," speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, "O, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts."

And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following: "This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open:

Then one of the elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!"