2 Samuel 7:12

Free Bible Version

For when you come to the end of your life and join your ancestors in death, I will bring to power one of your descendants, one of your sons, and make sure his kingdom is successful.

Cross References

Genesis 15:4

But then the Lord told him, “This man won't be your heir. Your heir will be your very own son.”

2 Samuel 22:51

You have saved the king so often, showing your trustworthy love to David, your anointed, and to his descendants forever.”

1 Kings 1:21

If you don't do anything, as soon as Your Majesty dies, I and my son Solomon will be considered traitors…”

1 Kings 1:48

and said, ‘Praise the Lord, the God of Israel! Today he has provided a successor to sit on my throne, and I have been privileged to see it.’”

1 Kings 2:1

The time of David's death was approaching, so he gave his son Solomon these last instructions:

1 Kings 2:10

Then David died and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 2:4

If so, then the Lord will keep his promise to me when he said: ‘If your descendants are to live right before me, faithfully and with complete commitment, then you will always have one of them on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 5:5

So I plan to build a Temple to honor the Lord my God, as the Lord told my father David. He said to him, ‘Your son whom I will place on your throne to succeed you will build the Temple to honor me.’

1 Kings 8:15

saying, “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who by his own power has fulfilled the promise he made to my father David when he said,

1 Kings 8:19

But it won't be you who will build this Temple, but your son who is to be born to you—he will build the Temple to honor me.'

1 Kings 8:20

Now the Lord has kept his promise that he made. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised. I have built the Temple to honor the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 9:5

then I will make your throne secure forever. I made this agreement with your father David, telling him, ‘You will always have a descendant to rule over Israel.’

2 Kings 8:19

But for the sake of David his servant the Lord didn't want to destroy Judah since he had promised him that there would always be a ruler from his descendants, like a lamp forever.

1 Chronicles 17:11

For when you come to the end of your life and join your ancestors in death, I will bring to power one of your descendants, one of your sons, and make sure his kingdom is successful.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Lord God, please keep the promise you made to my father David. You have made me king over a nation that has as many people as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 13:5

Don't you understand that the Lord, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a binding agreement?

2 Chronicles 21:7

However, the Lord did not want to destroy David's line because of the agreement he had made with David, and he had promised that David's descendants would rule forever like an ever-burning lamp.

2 Chronicles 23:3

they all assembled at God's Temple and made a solemn agreement with the king. Jehoiada announced to them, “Look, here is the king's son and he must reign, just as the Lord promised the descendants of David would.

2 Chronicles 6:15

You have kept the promise you made to your servant, my father David. With your own mouth you made that promise, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

2 Chronicles 6:9

But you are not going to build the Temple. Your son, one of your children, will build the Temple to honor me.’

Psalm 89:29

I will make sure his royal line lasts forever; his dynasty will continue as long as the heavens endure.

Isaiah 11:10

At that time the root of Jesse will stand like a banner for the nations. Foreigners will come to him, and the place of where he lives will be glorious.

Isaiah 9:7

His rule and the peace he brings know no limits and will never come to an end. He will sit on David's throne and rule his kingdom, making it secure. He will operate from principles of justice and goodness, from the time he begins his rule and for all eternity. The Lord Almighty is determined to make this happen.

Jeremiah 33:17

This is what the Lord says: David will always have a descendant who will be king of Israel,

Daniel 12:2

Millions sleeping in the ground in death will awake, some to eternal life, and some to eternal shame and disgrace.

Matthew 1:1

This book is the record of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham, beginning with the family line:

Luke 1:32

He will be very great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,

Luke 24:27

Then, starting with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them everything that was said in Scripture about himself.

Acts 13:36

But David died, after he had done what God wanted in his own time, and he was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet, and knew that God had promised on oath to place one of his descendants on his throne.

1 Corinthians 15:51

Listen, I'm going to reveal a mystery! Not all of us will die—but we will all be changed,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord told Moses, “You will join your ancestors in death, and these people are going to prostitute themselves by worshiping the foreign gods of the country they are entering. They will abandon me and break the agreement I've made with them.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

Since we're convinced that Jesus died and rose again, we're also sure that God will bring with Jesus those who have died trusting in him.