1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
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for David's

1 Kings 11:12, 32
Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. . . .

Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.

Genesis 26:5
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."

Deuteronomy 4:37
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

2 Samuel 7:12-16
And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. . . .

Isaiah 37:35
I will defend this city and rescue it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"

Jeremiah 33:20-26
"This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time, . . .

Romans 11:28
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

give him

1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My name.

2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

Psalm 132:17
There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

Luke 1:69-79
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David, . . .

Luke 2:32
a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel."

John 8:12
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

Revelation 22:16
"I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star."

lamp.

Psalm 18:28
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God enlightens my darkness.

and to establish

Psalm 87:5
And it will be said of Zion: "This one and that one were born in her, and The Most High Himself will establish her."

Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Isaiah 14:32
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge."

Isaiah 62:7
nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

Jeremiah 33:2
"Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

Micah 4:1, 2
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it. . . .

Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
But for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

King James Bible
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But because of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God maintained a lamp for David in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him so that Jerusalem would be established,

NET Bible
Nevertheless for David's sake the LORD his God maintained his dynasty in Jerusalem by giving him a son to succeed him and by protecting Jerusalem.
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