2 Chronicles 21:7

New English Translation

But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:17

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, striking the Philistine down and killing him. Then David’s men took an oath saying, “You will not go out to battle with us again! You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel!”

2 Samuel 23:5

My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

1 Kings 11:13

But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”

1 Kings 11:36

I will leave his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God maintained his dynasty in Jerusalem by giving him a son to succeed him and by protecting Jerusalem.

2 Kings 8:19

But the Lord was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.

2 Kings 8:24

Joram passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 22:11

So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 23:3

and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.

2 Chronicles 6:16

Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’

Psalm 132:11

The Lord made a reliable promise to David; he will not go back on his word. He said, “I will place one of your descendants on your throne.

Psalm 89:39

You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.

Luke 1:69

For he 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.”