Quotes About Divine promise

Then the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and ran from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun on the south side, Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan on the east.

From the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they designated these cities by name

Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.

Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.

In all, ten cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

So Othniel son of Calebís younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.

“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”

When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,

and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?

“My lord,” she replied, “you yourself swore to your maidservant by the LORD your God: ëSurely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne.í

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: ëI will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.í

Nevertheless, you are not the one to build it; but your son, your own offspring, will build the house for My Name.í

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”