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Psalm 89:30
If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
29I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
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The word “If” introduces a warning within God’s promise to David’s house: even children of the promised king remain answerable to God’s law.
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2 Samuel 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;Both passages place the possibility of a son’s disobedience within God’s pledged relationship, with discipline stated in the surrounding psalm.
1 Chronicles 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands …Both address the next generation of David’s house and warn about forsaking God or his law.
Psalm 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”Both speak of children in the royal line and whether they keep the covenant requirements God gives them.
Psalm 119:53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.Both name forsaking God’s law; Psalm 119 also describes indignation toward those who do so.
Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.Both speak of forsaking the law, while Proverbs contrasts that choice with keeping it and opposing the wicked.
1 Kings 9:6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other …Both frame a warning around children turning from God’s commands and failing to keep his statutes.
2 Chronicles 10:19So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.The connection is limited to David’s house: the psalm warns its children about disobedience, while Chronicles reports Israel’s rebellion against it.
Jeremiah 9:13–16The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,Both join forsaking God’s law with a failure to walk in the ways he has set.
Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.Both describe obedience as walking in God’s ordinances; Luke presents people doing what the psalm warns David’s children may abandon.
Ezekiel 18:17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for …Both speak of children and obedience to God’s ordinances; Ezekiel distinguishes a son’s conduct from his father’s iniquity.
2 Chronicles 7:17–22“As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my …Both concern David’s royal line and describe faithfulness through walking before God and keeping his ordinances.
Ezekiel 20:19I am the LORD your God. Walk in my statutes, keep my ordinances, and do them.Both use walking to describe obedience to God’s statutes or ordinances, making his commands a matter of conduct.
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You need room for both the promise and the warning when reading these lines. God pledges steadfast love to David’s house, and he takes its disobedience seriously.
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