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2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?

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ASV

Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.

KJV

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

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22 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
כֵ֥ןkhenthusH3651 →
בֵּיתִ֖יbei.Ti[is] house? myH1004 →
עִם־'im-withH5973 →
אֵ֑ל'ElGodH410 →
כִּי֩kiforH3588 →
בְרִ֨יתve.Rita covenant ofH1285 →
עוֹלָ֜םo.LamperpetuityH5769 →
שָׂ֣םsamhe has madeH7760 →
לִ֗יLito <the> me
עֲרוּכָ֤ה'a.ru.KhaharrangedH6186 →
בַכֹּל֙va.Kolin <the> everythingH3605 →
וּשְׁמֻרָ֔הu.she.mu.Rahand preservedH8104 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
כָל־khol-allH3605 →
יִשְׁעִ֥יyish.'Isalvation myH3468 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand everyH3605 →
חֵ֖פֶץChe.fetzdesireH2656 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
יַצְמִֽיחַ׃yatz.Mi.achwill he make grow?H6779 →

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Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,Psalms 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.Isaiah 9:6–7For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.2 Samuel 7:14–16I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.Genesis 9:16And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.Psalms 89:28–29I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.Hebrews 6:19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,Isaiah 56:4For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—Jeremiah 33:21then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.Psalms 105:10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:1 Chronicles 17:11–14And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.Jeremiah 33:25–26This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,Amos 9:11“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,Ezekiel 37:26And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.Isaiah 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

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