The Lord's Eternal Covenant with David
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t 'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'that u I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:
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'In those days and at that time
I will cause to grow up to David
A v Branch of righteousness;
He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
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In those days Judah will be saved,
And Jerusalem will dwell safely.
And this is the name by which she will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'
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"For thus says the LORD: 'David shall never w lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;
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'nor shall the x priests, the Levites, lack a man to y offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.' "
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And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
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"Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season,
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'then z My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers.
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'As a the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I b multiply the descendants of David My servant and the c Levites who minister to Me.' "
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
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"Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have d despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.
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"Thus says the LORD: 'If e My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not f appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
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g 'then I will h cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.' "
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Cross References
Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
Jeremiah 31:27
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -
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Cross References
Isaiah 32:1
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, And princes will rule with justice.
Jeremiah 29:10
For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
Jeremiah 32:42
For thus says the LORD: 'Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
Ezekiel 34:23 - 25
I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them - My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.
Haggai 2:6 - 9
For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land.
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Cross References
Isaiah 4:2
In that day the Branch of the LORD shall be bea...
Isaiah 11:1
There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of J...
Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "T...
Zechariah 3:8
Hear, O Joshua, the high priest, You and your c...
Zechariah 6:12
Then speak to him, saying, 'Thus says the LORD ...
Zechariah 6:13
Yes, He shall build the temple of the LORD. He ...
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Cross References
2 Samuel 7:16
"And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever." '"
1 Kings 2:4
"that the LORD may fulfill His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,' He said, 'you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.'
Psalms 89:29
His seed also I will make to endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
Luke 1:32
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.
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Cross References
Numbers 3:5 - 10
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Deuteronomy 18:1
The priests, the Levites - all the tribe of Levi - shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.
Deuteronomy 24:8
Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
Joshua 3:3
And they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.
Ezekiel 44:15
But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood," says the Lord GOD.
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Cross References
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 15:16
That I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 2:5
You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Revelation 1:6
And has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 23:5
Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?
2 Chronicles 7:18
"then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.'
2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
Psalms 89:34
My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
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Cross References
Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be.
Genesis 22:17
Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 30:19
Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving And the voice of those who make merry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Ezekiel 36:10
I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:11
I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
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Cross References
Isaiah 66:21
And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:18
'nor shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.'"
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Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2 - 4
And he spoke before his brethren and the army o...
Esther 3:6 - 8
But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone...
Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scor...
Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, A shaki...
Psalms 83:4
They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off ...
Ezekiel 36:2
'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because the enemy has...
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Cross References
Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.
Jeremiah 33:20
Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season.
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Cross References
Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 104:19
He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows its going down.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
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Cross References
Romans 11:1
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying.
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