You said, "I have made a covenant with the man I chose; I have promised my servant David,

'A descendant of yours will always be king; I will preserve your dynasty forever.' "

But I will not stop loving David or fail to keep my promise to him.

It will be as permanent as the moon, that faithful witness in the sky."

The LORD made a solemn promise and will not take it back: "You will be a priest forever in the priestly order of Melchizedek."

Israel's majestic God does not lie or change his mind. He is not a human being---he does not change his mind."

"I have made a covenant with the day and with the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can never be broken.

I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore."

"Have you noticed how people are saying that I have rejected Israel and Judah, the two families that I chose? And so they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation.

And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be merciful to my people and make them prosperous again."

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

When you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will make one of your sons king and will keep his kingdom strong.

And now, LORD God of Israel, I pray that you will also keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him that there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided they obeyed you as carefully as he did.

Now, LORD God of Israel, keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him that there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided that they carefully obeyed your Law just as he did.

He has provided for us a mighty Savior, a descendant of his servant David.

He promised through his holy prophets long ago

He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was.