Acts 15:16

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Acts 15:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:

16 ‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

17 so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things

18 that have been known for ages.’

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Amos 9:11

“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Amos 9:12

that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

2 Samuel 7:11

and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.

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 12:16

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

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

Psalms 89:38

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

Psalms 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Psalms 89:40

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Psalms 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalms 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Psalms 89:43

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Psalms 89:44

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

Psalms 89:45

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalms 89:46

How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

Psalms 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Psalms 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalms 89:49

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 33:25

This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

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.”

Ezekiel 17:22

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Ezekiel 17:23

I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

Ezekiel 17:24

Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”

Zechariah 13:8

And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

Matthew 1:20

But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:21

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:22

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

Matthew 1:24

When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.

Matthew 1:25

But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.

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!”

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Luke 1:70

as He spoke through His holy prophets, those of ages past,