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12If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
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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;
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; …
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: …
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, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)These are precious promises, confirmed by an oath , that the heirs of them might have strong consolation , Heb. 6:17 , 18 . It is all one whether we take them as pleas urged in the prayer or as answers returned to the prayer; believers know how to make use of the promises both ways, with them to speak to God and in them to hear what God the Lord will speak to us. These promises relate to the estab…
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