2 Chronicles 7:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne, as I made a covenant with your father David saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor to rule over Israel.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ then I will establish your royal throne, just as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a successor ruling in Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ I will raise up the throne of your kingdom, just as I promised to your father David, saying: 'There shall not be taken away a man from your stock who will be ruler in Israel.'

2 Chronicles 7:18 Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:16

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.’

1 Kings 9:5

then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David, saying, ‘You shall never lack a successor on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 2:4

Then the Lord will establish his word that he spoke concerning me: ‘If your heirs take heed to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a successor on the throne of Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:17

As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,