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Selected Verse: Psalms 132:12 - Strong Concordance

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Ps 132:12 Strong Concordance If thy children [01121] will keep [08104] my covenant [01285] and my testimony [05713] that [02090] [02097] I shall teach [03925] them, their children [01121] shall also sit [03427] upon thy throne [03678] for evermore [05703].
  King James If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
If thy children will keep my covenant ... - This was the condition implied in the promise - that they were to keep the law of God, and to serve and obey him. If they did not, they could not, of course, plead the promise. This principle is universal. We cannot plead any promise of God in our behalf, or in behalf of our children, unless we obey his commands, and are ourselves faithful to him. See the sentiment in this verse illustrated in the notes at Psa 89:30-37.
 
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30 If his children [01121] forsake [05800] my law [08451], and walk [03212] not in my judgments [04941];
31 If they break [02490] my statutes [02708], and keep [08104] not my commandments [04687];
32 Then will I visit [06485] their transgression [06588] with the rod [07626], and their iniquity [05771] with stripes [05061].
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness [02617] will I not utterly take [06331] from him, nor suffer my faithfulness [0530] to fail [08266].
34 My covenant [01285] will I not break [02490], nor alter [08138] the thing that is gone out [04161] of my lips [08193].
35 Once [0259] have I sworn [07650] by my holiness [06944] that I will not lie [03576] unto David [01732].
36 His seed [02233] shall endure for ever [05769], and his throne [03678] as the sun [08121] before me.
37 It shall be established [03559] for ever [05769] as the moon [03394], and as a faithful [0539] witness [05707] in heaven [07834]. Selah [05542].