◄ Psalm 132:12 {131:12} ►
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Good News Translation
If your sons are true to my covenant and to the commands I give them, their sons, also, will succeed you for all time as kings."

New Revised Standard Version
If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I shall teach them, their sons also, forevermore, shall sit on your throne.”

Contemporary English Version
If they keep our agreement and follow my teachings, then someone in your family will rule forever."

New American Bible
If your sons observe my covenant, and my decrees I shall teach them, Their sons, in turn, shall sit forever on your throne.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.

if thy children

Psalm 89:30-35 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: . . .

their children

Psalm 102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever.

Psalm 115:14 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever. . . .

Context
Remember David's Affliction
…11The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne. 12If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.13For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.…
Cross References
Luke 1:32
He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

Acts 2:30
Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne.

1 Kings 2:4
That the Lord may confirm his words, which he hath spoken of me, saying: If thy children shall take heed to their ways, and shall walk before me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul, there shall not be taken away from thee a man on the throne of Israel.

Psalm 89:29
And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

Psalm 132:11
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