2 Kings 8:19
Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
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2 Kings 19:34
I will defend this city and rescue it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"

2 Samuel 7:12, 13, 15
And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. . . .

1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My name.

1 Kings 15:4, 5
Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong. . . .

2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and she will call Him Immanuel.

Isaiah 37:35
I will defend this city and rescue it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.'"

Jeremiah 33:25, 26
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed laws of heaven and earth, . . .

Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man--the Holy One among you--and I will not come in wrath.

Luke 1:32, 33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, . . .

light [heb] candle, or lamp

1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My name.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
However, the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David His servant, since He had promised him to give a lamp to him through his sons always.

King James Bible
Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah because of His servant David, since He had promised to give a lamp to David and his sons forever.

International Standard Version
But the LORD remained unwilling to destroy Judah for the sake of his servant David, since he had promised to keep David's lamp burning brightly through his descendants every day.

NET Bible
But the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.
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