Psalms 132:12
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.
KJV
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.
ASV
אִֽם יִשְׁמְר֬וּ בָנֶ֨י/ךָ בְּרִיתִ/י֮ וְ/עֵדֹתִ֥/י ז֗וֹ אֲלַ֫מְּדֵ֥/ם גַּם בְּנֵי/הֶ֥ם עֲדֵי עַ֑ד יֵ֝שְׁב֗וּ לְ/כִסֵּא לָֽ/ךְ
Hebrew
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.
YLT
If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 3:14 — And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
- 1Kgs 6:12 — Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which
- 2Chr 6:16 — Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet
- 2Chr 17:5 — Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.
- Acts 2:30 — Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
- Isa 59:21 — As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
- Luke 1:32 — He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
- Ps 78:68 — But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
- Ps 89:4 — Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
- Ps 89:30 — If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- Ps 89:30 — If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
- Ps 103:18 — To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.