2 Samuel 7:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ He shall build a house for My Name [and My Presence], and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

Common English Bible

¹³ He will build a temple for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ He himself shall build a house to my name. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom, even forever.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ He shall build a house to my name: and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

2 Samuel 7:13 Cross References

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him, and the obedience of the peoples is his.

2 Samuel 22:51

He is a tower of salvation for his king and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”

2 Samuel 7:16

Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.”

2 Samuel 7:27

For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house’; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore as the Lord lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of my father David and who has made me a house as he promised, today Adonijah shall be put to death.”

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.’

1 Kings 2:45

But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord forever.”

1 Kings 5:5

So I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’

1 Kings 6:12

“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, obey my ordinances, and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my promise with you that I made to your father David.

1 Kings 8:13

I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell forever.”

1 Kings 8:15

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David, saying,

1 Kings 8:19

nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’

2 Kings 21:4

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”

2 Kings 21:7

The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

2 Kings 8:19

Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah, for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his descendants forever.

1 Chronicles 28:10

Take heed, now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary; be strong, and act.”

2 Chronicles 33:4

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

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.’

Job 36:7

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Psalm 72:17

May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun. May all nations be blessed in him; may they pronounce him happy.

Psalm 89:21

my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.

Psalm 89:29

I will establish his line forever and his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Psalm 89:4

‘I will establish your descendants forever and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah

Isaiah 49:8

Thus says the Lord: In a time of favor I have answered you; on a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,

Isaiah 9:6

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:7

Great will be his authority, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Jeremiah 33:17

For thus says the Lord: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever.

Daniel 2:44

And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall this kingdom be left to another people. It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

Zechariah 6:12

say to him: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch, for he shall branch out in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.

Zechariah 6:13

It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord; he shall bear royal honor and shall sit upon his throne and rule. There shall be a priest by his throne, with peaceful understanding between the two of them.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Hebrews 3:3

Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.

1 Peter 2:5

like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.