12 When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.(A) 13 He will build a house for My name,(B) and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(C) 14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me.(D) When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a human rod and with blows from others. 15 But My faithful love will never leave him(E) as I removed it from Saul; I removed him from your way.(F) 16 Your house and kingdom will endure before Me[a] forever,(G) and your throne will be established forever.’”(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 7:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read you

55 just as He spoke to our ancestors,
to Abraham and his descendants[a] forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:55 Or offspring; lit seed

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