1 Kings 6:12 References
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"Concerning this house which you are building, aif you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.
a 2 Samuel 7:5-16, 1 Kings 9:4
2 Samuel 7
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"Go and say to My servant David, 'Thus says the Lord, "aAre you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in?
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"For aI have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about bin a tent, even in a tabernacle.
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"aWherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, bwhich I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?'"'
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"Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "aI took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, bto be ruler over My people Israel.
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"aI have been with you wherever you have gone and bhave cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.
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"I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and awill plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, bnor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,
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even afrom the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and bI will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord also declares to you that cthe Lord will make a house for you.
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"aWhen your days are complete and you blie down with your fathers, cI will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom.
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"aI will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; bwhen he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,
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but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, aas I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
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"aYour house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'"