2 Samuel 7:16
and stedfast [is] thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spake Nathan unto David.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his [is] the obedience of peoples.
2 Samuel 22:51Magnifying the salvations of His king, And doing loving-kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed — unto the age!'
2 Kings 8:19and Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as He said to him, to give to him a lamp — to his sons all the days.
1 Chronicles 17:13I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son, and My kindness I turn not aside from him as I turned it aside from him who was before thee,
Job 36:7He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And [from] kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,
Psalms 72:5They fear Thee with the sun, and before the moon, Generation — generations.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 7:5-18
God's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1042.) 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord , Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of… Read the whole commentary →