2 Samuel 7:12

New Living Translation

For when you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, your own offspring, and I will make his kingdom strong.

Cross References

Genesis 15:4

Then the Lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”

2 Samuel 22:51

You give great victories to your king; you show unfailing love to your anointed, to David and all his descendants forever.”

1 Kings 1:21

If you do not act, my son Solomon and I will be treated as criminals as soon as my lord the king has died.”

1 Kings 1:48

and he said, ‘Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who today has chosen a successor to sit on my throne while I am still alive to see it.’”

1 Kings 2:1

As the time of King David’s death approached, he gave this charge to his son Solomon:

1 Kings 2:10

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

1 Kings 2:4

If you do this, then the Lord will keep the promise he made to me. He told me, ‘If your descendants live as they should and follow me faithfully with all their heart and soul, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’

1 Kings 5:5

So I am planning to build a Temple to honor the name of the Lord my God, just as he had instructed my father, David. For the Lord told him, ‘Your son, whom I will place on your throne, will build the Temple to honor my name.’

1 Kings 8:15

“Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,

1 Kings 8:19

but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’

1 Kings 8:20

“And now the Lord has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father’s place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 9:5

then I will establish the throne of your dynasty over Israel forever. For I made this promise to your father, David: ‘One of your descendants will always sit on the throne of Israel.’

2 Kings 8:19

But the Lord did not want to destroy Judah, for he had promised his servant David that his descendants would continue to rule, shining like a lamp forever.

1 Chronicles 17:11

For when you die and join your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

2 Chronicles 1:9

O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!

2 Chronicles 13:5

Don’t you realize that the Lord, the God of Israel, made a lasting covenant with David, giving him and his descendants the throne of Israel forever?

2 Chronicles 21:7

But the Lord did not want to destroy David’s dynasty, for he had made a covenant with David and promised that his descendants would continue to rule, shining like a lamp forever.

2 Chronicles 23:3

They all gathered at the Temple of God, where they made a solemn pact with Joash, the young king. Jehoiada said to them, “Here is the king’s son! The time has come for him to reign! The Lord has promised that a descendant of David will be our king.

2 Chronicles 6:15

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

2 Chronicles 6:9

but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’

Psalm 89:29

I will preserve an heir for him; his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.

Isaiah 11:10

In that day the heir to David’s throne will be a banner of salvation to all the world. The nations will rally to him, and the land where he lives will be a glorious place.

Isaiah 9:7

His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!

Jeremiah 33:17

For this is what the Lord says: David will have a descendant sitting on the throne of Israel forever.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.

Matthew 1:1

This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham:

Luke 1:32

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

Luke 24:27

Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Acts 13:36

This is not a reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet, and he knew God had promised with an oath that one of David’s own descendants would sit on his throne.

1 Corinthians 15:51

But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

1 Thessalonians 4:14

For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.