And when all Israel saw that the king had not heeded them, the people answered the king, saying: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O David! And Israel departed to their tents.

and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;

And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah and the treasures of the king's house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

But You have cast off and rejected, You have passed over Your anointed.

You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

You have exalted the right hand of his oppressors; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have made his glory to cease, and hurled his throne down to the ground.

O Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses which You swore unto David in Your faithfulness?

with which Your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, with which they have reproached the heel of Your Anointed.

And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.

If his sons forsake My Law and do not walk in My justice,

then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their perversities with strokes.

My covenant I will not break, nor alter what has gone forth out of My lips.

Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.

Of the increase of His government and peace upon the throne of David there will be no end; and upon His kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from now on, even forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will accomplish this.

And a Branch shall go out from the trunk of Jesse, and a Shoot shall grow out of his roots.

And He shall savor the fear of Jehovah. And He shall not judge according to the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.

And righteousness shall be the waistband of His loins, and faithfulness the waistband of His heart.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King who shall reign and act prudently, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the earth.

In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is His name by which He shall be called, JEHOVAH, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

For the Lord will not cast off forever;

for though He causes grief, yet He will have compassion according to the multitude of His kindness.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David.

And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,

For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.