Jeremiah 33:17

The NET Bible®

For I, the Lord , promise: "David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
For thus says the LORD: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Yisra'el;

King James Version
For thus saith the Lord ; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

English Standard Version
"For thus says the Lord : David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

New American Standard Bible
"For this is what the LORD says: 'David shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

New Century Version
This is what the Lord says: "Someone from David's family will always sit on the throne of the family of Israel.

Amplified Bible
"For thus says the LORD, 'David shall never lack a man (descendant) to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thus sayth the Lord, Dauid shall neuer want a man to sit vpon the throne of the house of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Yahweh, ‘David shall not have a man cut off from sitting on the throne of the house of Israel;

Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

Contemporary English Version
The king of Israel will be one of David's descendants,

Complete Jewish Bible
For this is what Adonai says: "There will never be cut off from David a man to occupy the throne of the house of Isra'el.

Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: There shall never fail to David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord says, "Someone from David's family will always sit on the throne and rule the family of Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
For thus says the LORD, David shall never lack an heir to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

Good News Translation
I, the Lord , promise that there will always be a descendant of David to be king of Israel

Lexham English Bible
For thus says Yahweh: ‘A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David.

Literal Translation
For so says Jehovah, Not a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel will be cut off to David.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus the LORDE promyseth: Dauid shal neuer want one, to syt vpon the stole of the house of Israel:

American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thus saith the LORD: There shall not be cut off unto David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

King James Version (1611)
For thus saith the Lord; Dauid shall neuer want a man to sit vpon the throne of the house of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thus the Lorde promiseth, Dauid shall neuer want one to sit vpon the throne of the house of Israel:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,

English Revised Version
For thus saith the LORD: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord seith these thingis, A man of Dauid schal not perische, that shal sitte on the trone of the hous of Israel;

Update Bible Version
For thus says Yahweh: David shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

New King James Version
"For thus says the LORD: "David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

New Living Translation
For this is what the Lord says: David will have a descendant sitting on the throne of Israel forever.

New Life Bible
For the Lord says, ‘David will never be without a man to sit on the throne of the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard
For thus says the Lord : David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, Thus, saith Yahweh, - There shall not be wanting to David - A man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
"For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For thus says the LORD, 'David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ For I, the Lord , promise: "David will never lack a successor to occupy the throne over the nation of Israel. ¹⁸ Nor will the Levitical priests ever lack someone to stand before me and continually offer up burnt offerings, sacrifice cereal offerings, and offer the other sacrifices."'" ¹⁹ The Lord spoke further to Jeremiah. ²⁰ "I, the Lord , make the following promise: ‘I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant ²¹ could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me. ²² I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.'" ²³ The Lord spoke still further to Jeremiah. ²⁴ "You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven't you? They are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah that he chose.' So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. ²⁵ But I, the Lord , make the following promise: I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth. ²⁶ Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

David shall never want: Heb. There shall not be cut off from David, Jeremiah 35:19, 2 Samuel 3:29, 2 Samuel 7:14-16, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Kings 8:25, *marg. 1 Chronicles 17:11-14, 1 Chronicles 17:27, Psalms 89:29-37, Isaiah 9:7, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:13 - for David 1 Kings 11:36 - David 2 Kings 11:2 - they hid him 1 Chronicles 15:2 - to minister Isaiah 65:9 - I will Jeremiah 17:25 - sitting Hosea 3:5 - and David their king

Cross-References

Exodus 12:37
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

Exodus 13:20
They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

Joshua 13:27
It included the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth.

Judges 8:5
He said to the men of Succoth, "Give some loaves of bread to the men who are following me, because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."

Judges 8:8
He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.

Judges 8:14
He captured a young man from Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth's officials and city leaders—seventy-seven men in all.

Judges 8:16
He seized the leaders of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then "threshed" the men of Succoth with them.

1 Kings 7:46
The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

Psalms 60:6
God has spoken in his sanctuary: "I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem; the Valley of Succoth I will measure off.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord,.... Confirming the above promise concerning the Messiah; giving a reason why his coming may be expected; and why the salvation, justification, and final perseverance of his church and people, are certain things, and to be depended upon:

David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; or, "there shall not be cut off unto David a man" a; and this is not to be understood of the temporal kingdom of David, which has been at an end long ago: Jeconiah, that was carried captive into Babylon, was written childless, and left no issue; and Zerubbabel, the only one of David's seed that made any figure after the captivity, was not a king; this is only true of the man Christ Jesus, of the seed of David, and is his son, to whom has been given the throne of his father David; and who reigns over the house of Jacob for ever; and of whose kingdom there is no end, Luke 1:32; and as long as he is King of saints, which will be for ever, David will not want a man to sit upon his throne. David's earthly kingdom was but a typical and shadowy one; a type of Christ's spiritual kingdom, which has succeeded it, and in which Christ is David's son and successor, and whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.

a לא יכרת לדוד איש "non exscindetur Davidi vir", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Read literally, these verses promise the permanent restoration of the Davidic throne and (of the Levitical priesthood. As a matter of fact Zedekiah was the last king of David’s line, and the Levitical priest-hood has long passed away. Both these changes Jeremiah himself foretold Jeremiah 22:30; Jeremiah 3:16. In what way then is this apparent contradiction (compare Isaiah 66:20-23; Ezek. 40–48) to be explained? The solution is probably as follows. It was necessary that the Bible should be intelligible to the people at the time when it was written, and in some degree to the writer. The Davidic kingship and the Levitical priest-hood were symbols, which represented to the Jew all that was most dear to his heart in the state of things under which he lived. Their restoration was the restoration of his national and spiritual life. Neither was so restored as to exist permanently. But that was given instead, of which both were types, the Church, whose Head is the true prophet, priest and King.