2 Samuel 7:16

Updated Bible Version

And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your house and kingdom will endure before me forever, and your throne will be established forever.’”

Hebrew Names Version
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

King James Version
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Lexham English Bible
Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever."'"

English Standard Version
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'"

New Century Version
But your family and your kingdom will continue always before me. Your throne will last forever.'"

New English Translation
Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.'"

Amplified Bible
"Your house (royal dynasty) and your kingdom will endure forever before Me; your throne will be established forever."'"

New American Standard Bible
"Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thine house shall be stablished and thy kingdome for euer before thee, euen thy throne shalbe stablished for euer.

Legacy Standard Bible
And your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'"

Contemporary English Version
I will make sure that one of your descendants will always be king.

Complete Jewish Bible
Thus your house and your kingdom will be made secure forever before you; your throne will be set up forever.'"

Darby Translation
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made firm for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Easy-to-Read Version
Your family of kings will continue—you can depend on that! For you, your kingdom will continue forever! Your throne will stand forever!'"

George Lamsa Translation
And your house and your kingdom shall be established for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.

Good News Translation
You will always have descendants, and I will make your kingdom last forever. Your dynasty will never end.'"

Literal Translation
And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for yi house & thy kyngdome, it shal be stablished for euer before the, & thy seate shal endure fast for euermore.

American Standard Version
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Bible in Basic English
And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thyne house, and thy kingdome shall be stablished for euer before thee, [euen] thy throne shalbe stablished for euer.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.'

King James Version (1611)
And thine house, and thy kingdome shall be stablished for euer before thee: thy throne shall be stablished for euer.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And his house shall be made sure, and his kingdom for ever before me, and his throne shall be set up for ever.

English Revised Version
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Berean Standard Bible
Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thin hows schal be feithful, and thi rewme schal be til in to with outen ende bifor my face, and thi trone schal be stidfast contynueli.

Young's Literal Translation
and stedfast [is] thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

Webster's Bible Translation
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

World English Bible
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

New King James Version
And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. [fn] Your throne shall be established forever." ' "

New Living Translation
Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for all time, and your throne will be secure forever.'"

New Life Bible
Your house and your nation will be made sure before Me forever. Your throne will be built to last forever."'"

New Revised Standard
Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall thy house and thy kingdom be made steadfast unto times age-abiding, before thee, - thy throne, shall be established unto times age-abiding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.

Revised Standard Version
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.'"

THE MESSAGE
God's Covenant with David Before long, the king made himself at home and God gave him peace from all his enemies. Then one day King David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look at this: Here I am, comfortable in a luxurious house of cedar, and the Chest of God sits in a plain tent." Nathan told the king, "Whatever is on your heart, go and do it. God is with you." But that night, the word of God came to Nathan saying, "Go and tell my servant David: This is God 's word on the matter: You're going to build a ‘house' for me to live in? Why, I haven't lived in a ‘house' from the time I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt till now. All that time I've moved about with nothing but a tent. And in all my travels with Israel, did I ever say to any of the leaders I commanded to shepherd Israel, ‘Why haven't you built me a house of cedar?' "So here is what you are to tell my servant David: The God -of-the-Angel-Armies has this word for you: I took you from the pasture, tagging along after sheep, and made you prince over my people Israel. I was with you everywhere you went and mowed your enemies down before you. Now I'm making you famous, to be ranked with the great names on earth. And I'm going to set aside a place for my people Israel and plant them there so they'll have their own home and not be knocked around any more. Nor will evil men afflict you as they always have, even during the days I set judges over my people Israel. Finally, I'm going to give you peace from all your enemies. "Furthermore, God has this message for you: God himself will build you a house! When your life is complete and you're buried with your ancestors, then I'll raise up your child, your own flesh and blood, to succeed you, and I'll firmly establish his rule. He will build a house to honor me, and I will guarantee his kingdom's rule permanently. I'll be a father to him, and he'll be a son to me. When he does wrong, I'll discipline him in the usual ways, the pitfalls and obstacles of this mortal life. But I'll never remove my gracious love from him, as I removed it from Saul, who preceded you and whom I most certainly did remove. Your family and your kingdom are permanently secured. I'm keeping my eye on them! And your royal throne will always be there, rock solid."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever."'"

Contextual Overview

⁴ And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go and tell my slave David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in? ⁶ for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the sons of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. ⁷ In all places wherein I have walked with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? ⁸ Now therefore thus you shall say to my slave David, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you should be leader over my people, over Israel; ⁹ and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones that are in the earth. ¹⁰ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the sons of wickedness afflict them anymore, as at the first, ¹¹ and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house. ¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, that shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:13, Genesis 49:10, 2 Kings 19:34, 1 Chronicles 17:13, 1 Chronicles 17:14, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 72:5, Psalms 72:17-19, Psalms 89:36, Psalms 89:37, Isaiah 9:7, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 7:14, Matthew 16:18, Luke 1:32, Luke 1:33, John 12:34, Hebrews 1:8, Revelation 11:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 13:14 - the Lord 1 Samuel 25:28 - the Lord 2 Samuel 5:12 - David 2 Samuel 7:15 - But my 1 Kings 2:4 - fail 1 Kings 8:24 - thou spakest 1 Kings 9:5 - I will establish 1 Kings 11:13 - Howbeit 1 Kings 11:36 - David 1 Kings 11:38 - build the 1 Kings 12:16 - now see 1 Chronicles 14:2 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 6:5 - neither chose 2 Chronicles 10:16 - David 2 Chronicles 23:3 - as the Lord Psalms 89:28 - mercy Proverbs 12:7 - the house Proverbs 27:24 - doth Isaiah 7:2 - the house Isaiah 16:5 - in the Jeremiah 17:25 - sitting Matthew 1:1 - the son of David

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And Yahweh said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you I have seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:2
Of every clean beast you shall take to you seven and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female:

Genesis 7:3
of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will destroy from off the face of the ground.

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is [your] dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrusts out the enemy from before you, And said, Destroy.

Psalms 46:2
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth changes, And though the mountains shake into the heart of the seas;

Proverbs 3:23
Then you shall walk in your way securely, And your foot shall not stumble.

Matthew 25:10
And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and those that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was shut.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee,.... That is, both his family and his government should be perpetuated, or he should always have one of his family to sit upon his throne; the accomplishment of which, in the beginning of it, he saw with his eyes in his son Solomon, and with an eye of faith in his greater Son the Messiah, in whom only these words will have their complete fulfilment; and so Abarbinel says this vision or prophecy is explained by some of the days of the Messiah; and this house and kingdom, in 1 Chronicles 17:14; are called by the Lord "my" house, and "my" kingdom:

thy throne shall be established for ever; which is a repetition of the same in other words for the confirmation of it.