2 Chronicles 7:18

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16 For now ^aI have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and² My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

17 ^aAs for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ^a‘You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.’

19 ^a“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them,

20 ^athen I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have¹ sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a ^bbyword among all peoples.

21 “And as for ^athis house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be ^bastonished and say, ^c‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’

Verse Comparison: 2 Chronicles 7:18

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American Standard Version
then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Amplified® Bible
Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.

Contemporary English Version
and I will keep my solemn promise to him that someone from your family will always be king of Israel.

Darby English Version
then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule over Israel.

Good News Bible
I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants.

King James Version
Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

New American Standard Bible
then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, `You shall not lack a man {to be} ruler in Israel.'

New International Version
I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.'

New King James Version
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.’

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to rule in Israel.'

Revised Standard Version
then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man to rule Israel.'

Young's Literal Translation
then I have established the throne of thy kingdom, as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There is not cut off a man to thee -- a ruler in Israel;

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