2 Chronicles 7:18

18 then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, '¹You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.'

2 Chronicles 7:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 7:18

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 7:12).

2 Chronicles 7:18 In-Context

16 "For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever , and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually .

17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

18 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.'

19 "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 then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 2:4; 2 Chronicles 6:16

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "There shall not be cut off to you a man"