^12 (A)When your days are complete and you ^(B)lie down with your fathers, ^(C)I will raise up your ^[a]descendant after you, who will come forth from ^[b]you, and I will establish his kingdom. ^13 (D)He shall build a house for My name, and ^(E)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ^14 (F)I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; ^(G)when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men, ¹⁵ but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, ^(H)as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ^16 (I)Your house and your kingdom shall endure before ^[c]Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’”

¹¹ When your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up one of your ^[a]descendants after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. ¹² He shall build for Me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. ^13 (A)I will be his father and he shall be My son; and I will not take My lovingkindness away from him, ^(B)as I took it from him who was before you. ¹⁴ But I will settle him in My house and in My kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.”’”

¹⁶ Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David, my father, that which You have ^[a]promised him, saying, ‘^[b](A)You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

³⁰ And so, because he was ^(A)a prophet and knew that ^(B)God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one ^[a]of his descendants on his throne,