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Psalm 132:12

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”

10For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
11The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
14“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.
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The opening “If” puts weight on the promise to David’s family, tying the throne’s future to his descendants’ obedience to God’s covenant.

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11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 103:18to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.Both passages speak of keeping God’s covenant, linking covenant faithfulness with obedience to what God teaches.
1 Kings 3:14If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”Both passages attach a promise to obedience, though Kings speaks of lengthened days and the psalm of descendants retaining the throne.
Psalm 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.Both passages speak of David’s offspring and an enduring throne, while Psalm 132 states a condition concerning their obedience.
1 Kings 6:12“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I …Both passages connect keeping God’s commands with his promise concerning David and the royal house.
2 Chronicles 6:16“Now therefore, LORD, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my …Both passages state that David’s descendants must obey God for their line to continue on Israel’s throne.
2 Chronicles 17:5Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.Both texts concern God’s role in establishing kingship, though the account of Jehoshaphat does not state the psalm’s covenant condition.
Psalm 89:30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;Both passages consider the conduct of royal descendants toward God’s instruction, one describing obedience and the other the possibility of forsaking it.
Acts 2:30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the …Both passages concern a descendant occupying David’s throne; Acts names the Christ as the one God swore to raise up.
Luke 1:32–33He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,David’s throne appears in both passages, and Luke identifies its promised recipient as the Son of the Most High.
Isaiah 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your …Both passages link God’s covenant and his words with children and the generations that follow.
Deuteronomy 17:20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may …Both passages connect a king’s obedience to God’s commands with the continuation of his family’s rule.
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God promises to teach the descendants whose obedience he requires. Even David’s royal house remains under his authority; the throne never places its occupants above his word.

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