11 ever since the day I ordered judges to be over My people Israel.(A) I will give you rest from all your enemies.

“‘The Lord declares to you: The Lord Himself will make a house for you. 12 When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.(B) 13 He will build a house for My name,(C) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(D) 14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me.(E) When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a human rod and with blows from others. 15 But My faithful love will never leave him(F) as I removed it from Saul; I removed him from your way.(G) 16 Your house and kingdom will endure before Me[a] forever,(H) and your throne will be established forever.’”(I)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read you

but because of the covenant the Lord had made with David, He was unwilling to destroy the house of David since the Lord had promised(A) to give a lamp(B) to David and to his sons forever.

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The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

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