Psalm 132:12
New International Version
If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”

New Living Translation
If your descendants obey the terms of my covenant and the laws that I teach them, then your royal line will continue forever and ever.”

English Standard Version
If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.”

Berean Standard Bible
If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I shall teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forevermore.”

New American Standard Bible
“If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also will sit upon your throne forever.”

NASB 1995
“If your sons will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

NASB 1977
“If your sons will keep My covenant, And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

Legacy Standard Bible
If your sons keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

Amplified Bible
“If your children will keep My covenant And My testimony which I will teach them, Their children also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

Christian Standard Bible
If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I will teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If your sons keep My covenant and My decrees that I will teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

American Standard Version
If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If your sons will keep my covenant: this testimony that I teach them, some also of their children will dwell to the eternity of eternities upon your throne

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If thy children will deep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.

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

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

English Revised Version
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If your sons are faithful to my promise and my written instructions that I will teach them, then their descendants will also sit on your throne forever."

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."

International Standard Version
If your sons keep my covenant and my statutes that I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

JPS Tanakh 1917
If thy children keep My covenant And My testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.'

Literal Standard Version
If your sons keep My covenant, | And My testimonies that I teach them, | Their sons also forever and ever | Sit on the throne for you.”

Majority Standard Bible
If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

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.”

NET Bible
If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

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.”

New Heart English Bible
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

Webster's Bible Translation
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.

World English Bible
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”

Young's Literal Translation
If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.

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Context
Remember David's Affliction
11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne. 12If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.” 13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:…

Cross References
Luke 1:32
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

Acts 2:30
But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

1 Kings 2:4
and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: 'If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

Psalm 89:29
I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.


Treasury of Scripture

If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit on your throne for ever more.

if thy children

Psalm 89:30-35
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 established before thee.

Psalm 115:14
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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Psalm 132
1. David in his prayer commends unto God the reverent care he had for the ark
8. His prayer at the removing of the ark
11. With a repetition of God's promises














Verse 12. - If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore (comp. 2 Samuel 7:14-16, where the conditional character of the promises made to David is also apparent).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
אִֽם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

your sons
בָנֶ֨יךָ ׀ (ḇā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

keep
יִשְׁמְר֬וּ (yiš·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

My covenant
בְּרִיתִי֮ (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

and the testimony
וְעֵדֹתִ֥י (wə·‘ê·ḏō·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5713: Testimony, witness

I will teach them,
אֲלַ֫מְּדֵ֥ם (’ă·lam·mə·ḏêm)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn

then their sons
בְּנֵיהֶ֥ם (bə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

will also
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

sit
יֵ֝שְׁב֗וּ (yê·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

on your throne
לְכִסֵּא־ (lə·ḵis·sê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3678: Seat of honor, throne

forever
עֲדֵי־ (‘ă·ḏê-)
Preposition
Strong's 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity

and ever.”
עַ֑ד (‘aḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity


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