For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;
But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.
In those days and at that time, I will let a branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;
Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.
As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
For this reason the Lord has said of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He will have no son to take his place on the seat of David: his dead body will be put out to undergo the heat of the day and the cold of the night.
And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.
And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.
And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.
In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.
The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.
But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the holy Spirit.
And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.
But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?
And all the people were surprised and said, Is not this the Son of David?
And a woman of canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.
And two blind men seated by the wayside, when they had the news that Jesus was going by, gave a loud cry, saying, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.
And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.
And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest.
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,
What is your opinion of the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, The Son of David.
He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,
If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?
And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?
And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.
And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.
A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest.
And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?
David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.
David himself gives him the name of Lord; and how then is he his son? And the common people gave ear to him gladly.
To a virgin who was to be married to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.
He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:
Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,
For on this day, in the town of David, a saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.
The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;
And he said in a loud voice, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.
And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me.
And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?
For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,
David then gives him the name of Lord, so how is it possible for him to be his son?
Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?
My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
For David said of him, I saw the Lord before my face at all times, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved:
My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.
For David has not gone up into heaven, but says, himself, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand,
Who has said, by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David your servant, Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?
Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,
And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.
And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:
About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:
After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star.
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