Deuteronomy 9:5
5 aNot because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm bthe word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.1 Kings 11:11-12
11Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, cI will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 12Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.1 Kings 11:32
32(but dhe shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, ethe city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),2 Kings 13:23
23 fBut the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them, gand he turned toward them, hbecause of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.2 Kings 19:34
34 iFor I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake jand for the sake of my servant David.”Psalms 89:49
49 Lord, where is your ksteadfast love of old,which by your lfaithfulness you swore to David?
Psalms 132:1
The Lord Has Chosen Zion
A Song of mAscents.
1 Remember, O Lord, in David’s favor,all nthe hardships he endured,
Psalms 132:17
17There I will make oa horn to sprout for David;I have prepared pa lamp for qmy anointed.
Isaiah 9:7
7Of the increase of his government and of peacerthere will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
swith justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
tThe zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
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