2 Chronicles 13:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ »Do you not know that Jehovah, the God of Israel, made an unbreakable covenant with David, giving him and his descendants kingship over Israel from generation to generation?

¹³ »‘Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.

¹⁹ »I have given you, your sons, and your daughters all the holy contributions which the Israelites offer to Jehovah. These contributions will be yours from generation to generation. It is an everlasting promise of salt in Jehovah’s presence for you and your descendants.«

²¹ »‘Jehovah, the God of Israel, gave the people of Israel victory over Sihon and his army. So the people of Israel took possession of all the territory of the Amorites who lived in that country. ²² »‘They occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert on the east to the Jordan on the west. ²³ »‘Jehovah, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites for his people, the people of Israel. ²⁴ »‘Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything Jehovah, our God, has taken for us.

¹ Jehovah said to Samuel: »How long will you mourn for Saul? After all I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go. I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite. I have a king from among his sons.«

¹² Jesse sent for him. He was a handsome, healthy young man, and his eyes sparkled. Jehovah said to Samuel: »This is the one. Anoint him!«

¹² »‘I will choose one of your sons to be king when you reach the end of your life and are buried in the tomb of your ancestors. I will make him a strong ruler. ¹³ »‘I will allow no one to take his long lasting kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me. ¹⁴ »‘I will be his father. He will be my son. When he does wrong I will correct him just as parents correct children. ¹⁵ »‘I will never put an end to my agreement with him. I put an end to my agreement with Saul when he was king before you. ¹⁶ »‘I will make sure that one of your descendants will be king for a very long time. Your throne will be established from generation to generation.’«

²⁰ »Now Jehovah has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel. And I have built the Temple for the worship of Jehovah the God of Israel.

¹¹ »‘When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you. It will be one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

¹⁴ »‘I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever! His throne will be established forever.’«

⁴ »Yet, from my entire family Jehovah God of Israel chose me to be king of Israel for as long as I live. He had chosen the tribe of Judah to lead Israel. From the families of Judah he chose my father’s family. From among my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ »Of all my sons, for Jehovah has given me many sons, he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of Jehovah’s kingdom to rule Israel.

⁹ I said: »What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us?

¹⁹ Once you spoke in vision to your godly ones. You said: »I have given help to one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen from the people.« ²⁰ I have found David my servant. I anointed him with my holy oil. ²¹ With him my hand will be established; my arm also will strengthen him. ²² No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. ²³ I will beat down his adversaries before him. I will strike those who hate him. ²⁴ But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn (power) (strength) will be exalted (increased). ²⁵ I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ²⁶ He will call to me: »You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation!« ²⁷ I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him. ²⁹ I will make his descendants endure forever and his throne like the days of heaven. ³⁰ If his descendants abandon my law and do not live by my rules, ³¹ if they violate my statutes and do not obey my commandments, ³² then with a rod I will punish their transgression and their crimes with beatings. ³³ But I will not take my loving kindness away from him or allow my truth to become perverted. ³⁴ I will not dishonor my promise or alter my own agreement. ³⁵ On my holiness I have taken an oath: I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His descendants will last forever. His throne will be in my presence like the sun. ³⁷ It shall be established forever like the moon. It will be like a faithful witness in heaven.

²⁹ »You have no use for knowledge and you refuse to respect Jehovah.

²¹ then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, with the Levitical priests as my ministers. ²² »‘I will increase the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me in the same way as the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.’«

²⁶ then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant. And I would not take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their prosperity and will show them love and compassion.’«

⁵ »I used my great strength and my powerful arm to make the earth along with the people and the animals on it. I give it to anyone I please. ⁶ »Now I have handed all these countries over to my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made wild animals serve him. ⁷ »All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until Babylon is defeated. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.

²⁴ »‘Offer them to Jehovah. The priests must throw salt on them and offer them as burnt offerings to Jehovah.

²⁵ You will be driven from men. Your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will eat grass like oxen and will be wet with the dew of heaven. Seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will. ²⁶ »Because they commanded to leave the stump and the roots of the tree your kingdom will be sure to you. After that you will know that the heavens do rule. ²⁷ »Let my counsel be acceptable to you O King. Stop your sins by being righteous and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. May there be a lengthening of your prosperity.« ²⁸ All this happened to king Nebuchadnezzar. ²⁹ At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. ³⁰ The king spoke: »Is this not great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?« ³¹ While the word was in the king's mouth a voice came from heaven, saying: »O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you. ³² »You will be driven from men. Your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You will have to eat grass like bulls. Seven times shall pass over you until you know the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.«

¹⁸ »O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

⁴⁹ »For every one will be salted with fire. ⁵⁰ »Salt is good. If it loses its saltiness how can you make it salty again? Have the salt or seasoning of friendship among yourselves, and live in peace with one another.«

³¹ »You will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son. You will call his name Jesus. ³² »He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. Jehovah God will give him the throne of his father David. (Isaiah 11:1-10) ³³ »He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will not end.«

⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,