ka.rat H3772

כָּרַת (ka.rat) means “to cut: cut” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

כָּרַת Hebrew · H3772 288 tagged occurrences in 280 verses

Pronunciation guide: kaw-rath' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3772G

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: cut

: cut/fell 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772H

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: make(covenant)

: make(covenant) 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772I

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: eliminate

: eliminate/destroy 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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TBESH · H3772J

כָּרַת · ka.rat · to cut: lack

: lack 1) to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cut off 1a1a) to cut off a body part, behead 1a2) to cut down 1a3) to hew 1a4) to cut or make a covenant 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be cut off 1b2) to be cut down 1b3) to be chewed 1b4) to be cut off, fail 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be cut off 1c2) to be cut down 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cut off 1d2) to cut off, destroy 1d3) to cut down, destroy 1d4) to take away 1d5) to permit to perish 1e) (Hophal) cut off

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)

KJV glosses: be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league (covenant), [idiom] lose, perish, [idiom] utterly, [idiom] want.

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How translators render H3772

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
cut off	13
must be cut off	13
made	12
will be cut off	12
i will cut off	11
and cut off	7
be cut off	7
he made	7
fail	6
make	6
i will make	5
and i will cut off	4
and made	4
cut down	4
i have made	4
to cut off	4
to make	4
and cut down	3
and cut him off	3
cut	3
had made a covenant	3
he had made	3
i made	3
let us make	3
shall be cut off	3
will be cut down	3
am making	2
and i have cut off	2
and to cut off	2
chopped down	2
cuts off	2
had made	2
he must be cut off	2
i have cut down	2
i will remove	2
of them made	2
please make	2
they cut down	2
to destroy	2
were cut off	2
will cut off	2
after they had made	1
and chop down	1
and cut	1
and he cut off	1
and i will make	1
and make	1
and must be cut off	1
and they cut off	1
and they will cut down	1
and will cut off	1
and wipe out	1
and you have made a pact	1
are cut off	1
be cut down	1
be removed	1
be without	1
been cut off	1
broken off	1
by cutting off	1
can we make	1
cut it down	1
cut them down	1
cutting off	1
destroy	1
disappear	1
fail to have	1
had slaughtered	1
has cut off	1
has made	1
have been cut off	1
have to destroy	1
he cuts down	1
he had cut off	1
he had killed	1
he has killed	1
he makes	1
he will cut off	1
i covenanted	1
i had made	1
i have already cut off	1
i have cut off	1
i will also cut off	1
i will cut	1
i will cut him off	1
i will cut you off	1
i will erase	1
i will make a treaty	1
in logging	1
in order to cut off	1
is making	1
it has been cut off	1
it has disappeared	1
it is cut down	1
it was chewed	1
lack	1
let us cut her off	1
let us cut him off	1
made a covenant	1
may be taken away	1
of them must be cut off	1
off	1
or cut	1
or severed	1
perish	1
shall certainly be cut off	1
so he made	1
so that i cut off	1
that he may cut off	1
that i may cut off	1
that they may make	1
their own destruction	1
then i will cut off	1
they cut	1
they cut off	1
they destroyed	1
they form	1
they had made	1
they made	1
they make	1
they must be cut off	1
they will chop down	1
to be cut off	1
to be destroyed	1
to chop down	1
to cut	1
to eliminate	1
to wipe out	1
use them	1
we have made	1
when i will make	1
who made	1
will be broken	1
will be cut out	1
will be destroyed	1
will cut	1
will cut you down	1
will he make	1
will make	1
woodcutter	1
you cut down	1
you made	1
you said i have made	1
you shall make	1
you will be cut off	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
shall be cut off	24
made	17
and i will cut off	12
and cut off	9
to cut off	9
and cut down	6
cut off	6
and made	5
there shall not fail	5
which he made	5
and i will make	4
and will cut him off	4
and will cut off	4
be cut off	4
shall not be cut off	4
are cut off	3
were cut off	3
and have cut off	2
and they cut off	2
cut down	2
had made	2
hath cut off	2
i have made	2
i made	2
make	2
shall cut off	2
that he made	2
that i will make	2
to make	2
want	2
will cut off	2
will i make	2
according as i have covenanted	1
also will i cut off	1
and because he hath cut down	1
and because of all this we make	1
and cut them down	1
and destroy	1
and i will cut down	1
and i will cut him off	1
and i will cut thee off	1
and is cut off	1
and let there not fail	1
and let us cut it off	1
and there shall none of you be freed	1
and they do make	1
and they shall be cut off	1
and they shall cut down	1
and to cut off	1
and we will cut	1
and will cut down	1
and ye had made	1
and ye shall make	1
be not cut off	1
behold i make	1
cut ye not off	1
cutteth	1
destroyed	1
ere it was chewed	1
for in that i cut off	1
for it is cut off	1
for thee that i cut thee not off	1
hath and cut down	1
hath made	1
hath made a league	1
have cut him off	1
he heweth him down	1
he made	1
he shall be cut off	1
he shall both cut off	1
hew ye down	1
him and cut off	1
him because he had cut off	1
how he hath cut off	1
i have cut off	1
i shall not cut off	1
i will cut off	1
i will make	1
if it be cut down	1
in making	1
is cut off	1
it shall be cut off	1
lest thou make	1
let us make	1
likewise cut down	1
maketh	1
may be cut off	1
me when they cut	1
moreover i will make	1
neither with you only do i make	1
no feller	1
now therefore let us make	1
now therefore make	1
of him shall be cut off	1
of them and thou shalt not cut them down	1
of them shall be cut off	1
or cut	1
perish	1
shall be cut	1
shall be cut out	1
shall cut thee off	1
shall even be cut	1
shall not want	1
shall utterly	1
should not be cut off	1
should not have been cut off	1
so he made	1
so that i cut off	1
that cut	1
that he had made	1
that he may cut off	1
that i covenanted	1
that i have cut off	1
that i have made	1
that i made	1
that i may cut off	1
that i will cut off	1
that shall not be cut off	1
that they may be cut off	1
that they may make	1
that we lose	1
that ye might cut yourselves off	1
thee and madest	1
thee and thou shalt be cut off	1
thee he is utterly cut off	1
them and cut off	1
them thou shalt make	1
then that i will cut off	1
then will i cut off	1
therefore now make	1
therein shall be cut off	1
thereof and let us cut him off	1
thereto shall even be cut off	1
they are	1
they had made	1
they shall cut down	1
thou shalt make	1
thou shalt not cut off	1
thou that they hew	1
thus they made	1
to cut	1
to cut down	1
to cut it off	1
to destroy	1
to hew	1
to thyself lest thou make	1
together unto me those that have made	1
until he had cut off	1
until they had destroyed	1
upon it and will cut off	1
upon it shall be cut off	1
upon thee and cut off	1
us and how shall we make	1
us and thee and let us make	1
was cut down	1
was not cut	1
we have made	1
which i had made	1
which i have made	1
which i made	1
which they had made	1
which thou shalt cut down	1
who shall cut off	1
will he make	1
will i cut off	1
with them and made	1

Verses containing H3772

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1 Samuel 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.
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Source alternate reference: 24.6
1 Samuel 24:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. Know and see that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
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Source alternate reference: 24.12
1 Samuel 24:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
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Source alternate reference: 24.22
1 Samuel 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
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1 Samuel 31:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
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2 Samuel 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”
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2 Samuel 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
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2 Samuel 3:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once, and I will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went in peace.
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2 Samuel 3:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
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2 Samuel 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
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2 Samuel 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
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2 Samuel 10:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
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2 Samuel 20:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home. And Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
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1 Kings 5:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.”
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Source alternate reference: 5.20
1 Kings 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
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Source alternate reference: 5.26
1 Kings 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
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1 Kings 8:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
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1 Kings 8:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
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1 Kings 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
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1 Kings 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
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1 Kings 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.
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1 Kings 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
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1 Kings 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!
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1 Kings 15:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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1 Kings 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
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1 Kings 18:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
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1 Kings 20:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.
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1 Kings 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
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2 Kings 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel.
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2 Kings 11:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
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2 Kings 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
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2 Kings 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
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2 Kings 17:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.
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2 Kings 17:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,
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2 Kings 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
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2 Kings 19:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
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2 Kings 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
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2 Kings 23:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
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1 Chronicles 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where David made a covenant with them before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.
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1 Chronicles 16:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
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1 Chronicles 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
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1 Chronicles 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
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2 Chronicles 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
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Source alternate reference: 2.7
2 Chronicles 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
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Source alternate reference: 2.9
2 Chronicles 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
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Source alternate reference: 2.15
2 Chronicles 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
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2 Chronicles 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there I have placed the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with the children of Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 6:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
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2 Chronicles 7:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’
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