2 Samuel 7:12

New American Bible - revised edition

when your days have been completed and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom.

Cross References

Genesis 15:4

Then the word of the Lord came to him: No, that one will not be your heir; your own offspring will be your heir.

2 Samuel 22:51

You have given great victories to your king, and shown kindness to your anointed, to David and his posterity forever.

1 Kings 1:21

If this is not done, when my lord the king rests with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

1 Kings 1:48

This is what the king said: ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has this day provided one to sit upon my throne, so that I see it with my own eyes.’”

1 Kings 2:1

When the time of David’s death drew near, he gave these instructions to Solomon his son:

1 Kings 2:10

David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.

1 Kings 2:4

and that the Lord may fulfill the word he spoke concerning me: If your sons so conduct themselves that they walk before me in faithfulness with their whole heart and soul, there shall never be wanting someone of your line on the throne of Israel.

1 Kings 5:5

Thus Judah and Israel lived in security, everyone under their own vine and fig tree from Dan to Beer-sheba, as long as Solomon lived. Solomon’s Riches: Chariots and Horses.

1 Kings 8:15

He said: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his own mouth spoke a promise to David my father and by his hand fulfilled it, saying:

1 Kings 8:19

But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins; he shall build the house for my name.

1 Kings 8:20

Now the Lord has fulfilled the word he spoke: I have succeeded David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord has spoken, and I have built this house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 9:5

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father: There shall never be wanting someone from your line on the throne of Israel.

2 Kings 8:19

Even so, the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah, for the sake of his servant David. For he had promised David that he would leave him a holding in the Lord’s presence for all time.

1 Chronicles 17:11

when your days have been completed and you must join your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will be one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may your word to David my father be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 13:5

Do you not know that the Lord, the God of Israel, has given David kingship over Israel forever, to him and to his sons, by a covenant of salt?

2 Chronicles 21:7

Even so, the Lord was unwilling to destroy the house of David because of the covenant he had made with David and because of his promise to leave him and his sons a holding for all time.

2 Chronicles 23:3

The whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. Jehoiada said to them: “Here is the king’s son who must reign, as the Lord promised concerning the sons of David.

2 Chronicles 6:15

the covenant that you kept toward your servant, David my father. That which you promised him, your mouth has spoken and your hand has fulfilled this very day.

2 Chronicles 6:9

But it is not you who will build the house, but your son, who comes from your loins: he shall build the house for my name.

Psalm 89:29

Forever I will maintain my mercy for him; my covenant with him stands firm.

Isaiah 11:10

On that day, The root of Jesse, set up as a signal for the peoples— Him the nations will seek out; his dwelling shall be glorious.

Isaiah 9:7

The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it falls upon Israel;

Jeremiah 33:17

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

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake; Some to everlasting life, others to reproach and everlasting disgrace.

Matthew 1:1

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Luke 1:32

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

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures.

Acts 13:36

Now David, after he had served the will of God in his lifetime, fell asleep, was gathered to his ancestors, and did see corruption.

Acts 2:30

But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,

1 Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, Soon you will be at rest with your ancestors, and then this people will prostitute themselves by following the foreign gods among whom they will live in the land they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep.