Psalms 132:12
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
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13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:4Then the LORD may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
2 Chronicles 7:18then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
Psalms 102:28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of Armies will perform this.
Jeremiah 33:17For the LORD says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
Acts 2:30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 132:12-18
God's Choice of Zion; God's Promises to Zion. 11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. 13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her… Read the whole commentary →