Bible Strands
1 Chronicles 17:12
He will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks to David, promising that after David's death He will raise David's own son to succeed him and rule his kingdom.
The words — The Hebrew יִבְנֶה (yivneh) means "he will build" and בַּיִת (bayit) means "house," while כֹּנַנְתִּי (konnanti) means "I will establish" and עַד־עוֹלָם (ad-olam) means "until perpetuity."
The thread — The text's promise of an unending royal reign echoes in Isaiah 9:7 and Daniel 2:44, while the specific plan to construct a dwelling for God is fulfilled in 1 Kings 5:5.
Why it lands — The text states that a descendant will construct a house for God and that God will permanently secure that descendant's throne. It requires a reader to accept the direct link between the promised builder and the guaranteed eternal reign without adding external theological assumptions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Daniel 2:44 In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
- 1 Kings 5:5 So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
- Acts 7:47 But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
- Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- 1 Chronicles 22:9 But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
- 1 Chronicles 28:6 And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
- Psalms 89:36 his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Ezra 5:11 And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.