Jeremiah 33:21
19 And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
20 “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
then 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.
22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
23 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- then 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.
- KJV
- Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
- WEB
- then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
- ASV
- then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
- DARBY
- [then] shall also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers.
- BLB
- then also My covenant may be broken with David My servant, from there being unto him a son reigning on his throne; so with the Levites, the priests, those ministering to Me.
- ÅB
- da skal også min pakt med min tjener David bli brutt, så han ikke får noen sønn som blir konge og sitter på hans trone, og min pakt med mine tjenere de levittiske prester.
- OTB
- da kan Min pakt med Min tjener David—og Min pakt med levittene som er prester som tjener for Mitt åsyn—brytes, så David ikke lenger har en etterkommer til å regjere på sin trone.
- B1930
- da skal også min pakt med min tjener David bli brutt, så han ikke får nogen sønn som blir konge og sitter på hans trone, og min pakt med mine tjenere de levittiske prester.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 89:34
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Read in context2 Chronicles 7:18
then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.’
Read in context2 Chronicles 21:7
Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
Read in context2 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?
Read in contextMatthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Read in contextLuke 1:32–33
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
Read in contextLuke 1:69–70
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,
Read in contextRevelation 5:10
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
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