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1 Kings 11:36
I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

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1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

2 Kings 8:19
However, Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

Psalms 132:17
I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

2 Chronicles 21:7
However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

Psalms 18:28
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Isaiah 37:35
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

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1 Kings 14:21
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1 Kings 8:16
‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

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2 Samuel 7:13
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

2 Samuel 7:15
but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”

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1 Kings 12:20
When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

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