2 Samuel 7:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Your dynasty and your kingdom will be secured forever before me. Your throne will be established forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And your house shall be faithful, and your kingdom shall be before your face, for eternity, and your throne shall be secure continuously.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face: and thy throne shall be firm for ever.

2 Samuel 7:16 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 7:13

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

2 Samuel 7:17

In accordance with all these words and with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

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 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.’

2 Kings 19:34

For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

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.

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 45:6

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;

Psalm 72:5

May he live while the sun endures and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Psalm 89:4

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

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 17:25

then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city shall be inhabited forever.

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,

Daniel 7:14

To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.

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.

John 12:34

The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

Hebrews 1:8

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign forever and ever.”

1 Samuel 25:28

Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.