I will always keep my promise to him, and my covenant with him will last forever.

I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

You have broken your covenant with your servant and thrown his crown in the dirt.

I have chosen a place for my people Israel and have settled them there, where they will live without being oppressed any more. Ever since they entered this land, they have been attacked by violent people, but this will not happen again. I promise to keep you safe from all your enemies and to give you descendants.

When you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will make one of your sons king and will keep his kingdom strong.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him as a father punishes his son.

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

And that is how God will bless my descendants, because he has made an eternal covenant with me, an agreement that will not be broken, a promise that will not be changed. That is all I desire; that will be my victory, and God will surely bring it about.

'From the time I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen any city in all the land of Israel in which a temple should be built where I would be worshiped. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.' "

"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

Instead, they will serve me, the LORD their God, and a descendant of David, whom I will enthrone as king.

"I have made a covenant with the day and with the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can never be broken.

In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David that he would always have a descendant to be king, and I have made a covenant with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me; and those covenants can never be broken.

I will give them a king like my servant David to be their one shepherd, and he will take care of them.

I, the LORD, will be their God, and a king like my servant David will be their ruler. I have spoken.

But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the LORD their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the LORD and will receive his good gifts.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High God. The Lord God will make him a king, as his ancestor David was,

and he will be the king of the descendants of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end!"

In a vision long ago you said to your faithful servants, "I have given help to a famous soldier; I have given the throne to one I chose from the people.

He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,

The LORD says, "Here is my servant, whom I strengthen--- the one I have chosen, with whom I am pleased. I have filled him with my Spirit, and he will bring justice to every nation.

Then a voice said from heaven, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased."

"Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, the one I love, and with whom I am pleased. I will send my Spirit upon him, and he will announce my judgment to the nations.

He will not break off a bent reed, nor put out a flickering lamp. He will persist until he causes justice to triumph,

"Once and for all I have promised by my holy name: I will never lie to David.

You made a solemn promise to David--- a promise you will not take back: "I will make one of your sons king, and he will rule after you.

The LORD promised David that he would take the kingdom away from Saul and his descendants and would make David king of both Israel and Judah, from one end of the country to the other. Now may God strike me dead if I don't make this come true!"

He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was.

But Jesus became a priest by means of a vow when God said to him, "The Lord has made a solemn promise and will not take it back: 'You will be a priest forever.' "