1Sa 2:30, 2Sa 7:20-24 | ESV | STEP | Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel , declares : I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever , but now the Lord declares : Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor , and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed .

1 Samuel 2:30

30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^a‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^bbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

2 Samuel 7:20-24

20 And what more can David say to you? ^cFor you know your servant, O Lord God! 21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22 ^dTherefore you are great, O Lord God. ^eFor there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 ^fAnd who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name ^gand doing for them ^{▼▼With a few Targums, Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew you} great and awesome things by driving out ^{▼▼Septuagint (compare 1 Chronicles 17:21); Hebrew for your land} before your people, whom ^jyou redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24 ^kAnd you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O Lord, became their God.