2 Chronicles 13:5

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2 Chronicles 13:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.

4 Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

5 Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt ?

6 Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.

7 Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

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Nehemiah 5:9

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Proverbs 1:29

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

2 Peter 3:5

But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

Judges 11:21

Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,

Judges 11:22

seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

Judges 11:23

Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?

Judges 11:24

Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

Jeremiah 27:5

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Jeremiah 27:6

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

Jeremiah 27:7

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Daniel 4:25

You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.

Daniel 4:26

As for the command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be restored to you as soon as you acknowledge that Heaven rules.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

Daniel 4:28

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel 4:29

Twelve months later, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 4:31

While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

Daniel 4:32

You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

1 Samuel 16:12

So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”

2 Samuel 7:12

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

2 Samuel 7:15

But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.

2 Samuel 7:16

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

1 Kings 8:20

Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 17:11

And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.

1 Chronicles 17:14

But I will set him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.”

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

Psalms 89:19

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Psalms 89:20

I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Psalms 89:21

My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.

Psalms 89:22

No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

Psalms 89:23

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

Psalms 89:24

My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.

Psalms 89:25

I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.

Psalms 89:26

He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’

Psalms 89:27

I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalms 89:28

I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Psalms 89:29

I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Psalms 89:30

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Psalms 89:31

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Psalms 89:32

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

Psalms 89:33

But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

Psalms 89:34

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Psalms 89:35

Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—

Psalms 89:36

his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

Psalms 89:37

like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

Jeremiah 33:21

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

Jeremiah 33:26

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

Luke 1:31

Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.

Luke 1:32

He 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,

Luke 1:33

and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

Leviticus 2:13

And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

Numbers 18:19

All the holy offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”

Ezekiel 43:24

You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

Mark 9:49

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Mark 9:50

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”