2 Chronicles 6:16

English Standard Version 2016

Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

Cross References

1 Kings 2:4

that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

Psalm 132:12

If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.”

2 Chronicles 7:18

then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

Ezekiel 36:37

“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

Psalm 119:1

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Psalm 26:3

For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

1 Kings 6:12

“Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

2 Chronicles 6:17

Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.

Psalm 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

2 Chronicles 7:17

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

2 Chronicles 13:5

Ought you not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

2 Chronicles 21:7

Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.

2 Chronicles 23:3

And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the Lord spoke concerning the sons of David.