2 Chronicles 21:7

Modern English Version

But the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant that He made with David, and because He said that He would give a lamp to David and his sons for all days.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:17

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David made an oath with him, saying, “You shall no longer come out with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For He made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it flourish?

1 Kings 11:13

However, I will not take the whole kingdom away, but will preserve one tribe for your son for David My servant’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem which I chose.”

1 Kings 11:36

To his son will I give one tribe, so that My servant David will always have a light before Me in Jerusalem, the city in which I have chosen to put My name.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, for David’s sake, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem,

2 Kings 8:19

Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of His servant David, since He promised to give a lamp to him and his sons perpetually.

2 Kings 8:24

So Jehoram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 22:11

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from the king’s sons who were going to be put to death, and she placed him and his nurse in a bed chamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest (since she was a sister of Ahaziah), hid Joash from Athaliah. And she did not put the royal child to death.

2 Chronicles 23:3

So the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God, and Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son will reign, as the Lord has said of the sons of David.

2 Chronicles 6:16

“And now, O  Lord God of Israel, keep what You promised Your servant David my father saying, ‘You will not lack a man sitting on the throne of Israel before Me, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

Psalm 132:11

The Lord has sworn in truth to David from which He will not turn back: “A son of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.

Psalm 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have defiled his crown by casting it to the ground.

Luke 1:69

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”