Jeremiah 33:21

then you will be able to break my covenant with David my servant, so that he will no longer have a son to sit on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests, my servants.

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Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

In Context

20“Yahweh says this: 'If you can break my covenant with day and night so that there will no longer be day or night at their proper times,

22As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted, and as the sand of the seashores cannot be measured, so I will increase the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who serve before me.'”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5Indeed, is my family not like this before God? 1 Has he not made an everlasting covenant with me, 1 ordered and sure in every way? 1 Does he not increase my salvation and fulfill my every desire? 1

2 Chronicles 21:7However, Yahweh did not wish to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David; he had promised that he would always give life to him and his descendants.

Psalms 89:36his descendants will continue forever 1 and his throne as long as the sun before me. 1

Psalms 132:17There I will make a horn to sprout for David 1 and set up a lamp for my anointed one. 1

Isaiah 55:3Turn your ears and come to me! Listen, that you may live! 1 I will make an everlasting covenant with you—my reliable, faithful love that I promised to David. 1

Jeremiah 33:18nor will a man from the Levitical priests be lacking before me to raise burnt offerings, to burn food offerings, and to perform grain offerings all the time.'”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 33:18-26

Security of God's Covenants; The Covenant of Priesthood. ( b. c. 589.) 17 For thus saith the Lord ; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19 And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus saith the Lord ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and… Read the whole commentary →

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