EasyEnglish Bible 2018
1 Chronicles 17:13
13I will be his father and he will be my son. I will never remove my faithful love from him, as I took it away from the king who ruled before you.
1 Chronicles 17:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
- New International Version (NIV)I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
Context of 1 Chronicles 17:13
11When you die, people will bury you in the grave of your ancestors. Then I will choose your descendant, one of your own sons, to become king. I will make his kingdom strong. 12He is the man who will build a house for me. And I will cause his descendants to rule as kings for ever. I will be his father and he will be my son. I will never remove my faithful love from him, as I took it away from the king who ruled before you. 14I will cause him to rule my people and my kingdom for ever. Someone from his family will always be king.” ’ 15Nathan told David the whole message that the Lord had shown to him.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 171 Chronicles 17:13 word by word
אֲנִי֙ אֶֽהְיֶה־לּ֣וֹ לְאָ֔ב וְה֖וּא יִֽהְיֶה־לִּ֣י לְבֵ֑ן וְחַסְדִּי֙ לֹא־אָסִ֣יר מֵֽעִמּ֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר הֲסִיר֔וֹתִי מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 17:13
- 2 Samuel 7:14I will be his father and he will be my son. When he does something wrong, I will punish him, so that he learns to do what is right. I will punish him in the way that human fathers punish their sons.
- Psalms 89:26The king will say to me, “You are my Father. You are my God. You protect me and you rescue me.”
- Isaiah 55:3Come to me and listen carefully. If you accept my teaching, you will have real life! Then I will make a covenant with you, to be my people. My promise will continue for ever, like the promise that I made to King David.
- Hebrews 1:5God never said this to any angel: ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.’ In another place in the Bible, God says, ‘I will be his Father, and he will be my Son.’
- Psalms 2:7I will tell you what the Lord has promised to me, his king. He said to me, ‘You are my son. Yes, today I have become your father!
- Luke 9:35Then a voice spoke from the cloud and it said, ‘This is my Son. He is the one that I have chosen. Listen to him.’
- John 3:35The Father loves the Son. He has given his Son authority over all things.
- 2 Samuel 7:15I removed my faithful love from Saul, and I removed him as king before you. But I will always continue to faithfully love your son.
- 1 Kings 11:12But I will not do this while you are alive, because your father David was faithful to me. Instead, I will take the kingdom away from your son.
- 1 Chronicles 17:12He is the man who will build a house for me. And I will cause his descendants to rule as kings for ever.
- 1 Chronicles 10:14He did not ask the Lord to tell him what he should do. So the Lord punished him with death. The Lord gave the kingdom of Israel to Jesse's son, David, instead.
- 1 Samuel 15:28Samuel said to him, ‘The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today. He has given it to a man who is better than you.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 17:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13I will not take my mercy away from him - I will not cut off his family from the throne, as I did that of his predecessor Saul.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13My son - The minatory clause which occurs after this in Samuel is here omitted, because the writer is not about to record the sins of Solomon, or the sufferings 1 Kings 11:9-40 which he thereby brought upon himself.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13The Chronicler specifically made this statement about Solomon (see 1 Chronicles 22:9; 28:5–6; compare 2 Samuel 7:14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee--My procedure in dealing with him will be different from My disposal of Saul. Should his misconduct call for personal chastisement, I shall spare his family. If I see it necessary to withdraw My favor and help for a time, it will be a corrective discipline only to reform and restore, not to destroy. (On this passage some have founded an argument for Solomon's repentance…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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