So Joab and the people who were with him moved forward into battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.
2 Chronicles 13:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ought you not to know that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the kingship over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? American Standard Version (1901) Ought ye not to know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? Common English Bible Surely you know that the LORD, Israel’s God, made an unbreakable covenant with David and his descendants that they would rule Israel forever. Catholic Public Domain Version Are you ignorant that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave David the kingship over Israel for all time, to him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave to David the kingdom over Israel for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? |
So Joab and the people who were with him moved forward into battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.
Now the Lord has fulfilled the promise that he made, for I have risen in the place of my father David; I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
When your days are fulfilled to go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.”
Therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant my father David that which you promised him, saying, ‘There shall never fail you a successor before me to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children keep to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.
You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.
All your grain offerings you shall season with salt; you shall not omit from your grain offerings the salt of the covenant with your God; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the Lord I have given to you, together with your sons and daughters, as a perpetual due; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord for you and your descendants as well.”
They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”
He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. The Lord said, “Rise and anoint him, for this is the one.”