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New Living Translation

Psalms 89:30

But if his descendants forsake my instructions and fail to obey my regulations,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Church;   Covenant;   David;   Government;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Disobedience;   Failure;   Faith/faithfulness;   Forsaking;   Government;   Kindness;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;   Anger of God, the;   Covenant, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   Covenant;   David;   Samuel, books of;   Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Expiation, Propitiation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Lovingkindness;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Go;   Wrath (Anger);  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if his children forsake my Lawe, and walke not in my iudgements:
Christian Standard Bible®
If his sons abandon my instructionand do not live by my ordinances,
Hebrew Names Version
If his children forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;
Easy-to-Read Version
If his descendants stop following my law and stop obeying my commands,
Amplified Bible
"If his children turn away from My law And do not walk in My ordinances,
American Standard Version
If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;
Contemporary English Version
Suppose some of his children should reject my Law and refuse my instructions.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will establish his dynasty forever, and his throne as long as the heavens last.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
King James Version (1611)
If his children forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgements;
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
English Revised Version
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Berean Standard Bible
If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
Lexham English Bible
If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,
Literal Translation
If his sons forsake My Law, and do not walk in My judgments;
New Century Version
"If his descendants reject my teachings and do not follow my laws,
New English Translation
If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,
New King James Version
"If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
New Life Bible
"If his sons leave My Law and do not do what I say,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If his sons forsake my law, And, in my regulations, do not walk;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-31) And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:
George Lamsa Translation
If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments;
Good News Translation
"But if his descendants disobey my law and do not live according to my commands,
New American Standard Bible
"If his sons abandon My Law And do not walk in My judgments,
King James Version
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement:
New Revised Standard
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,
Darby Translation
If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe if hise sones forsaken my lawe; and goen not in my domes.
Young's Literal Translation
If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
World English Bible
If his children forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;
Revised Standard Version
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,
Update Bible Version
If his sons forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;
Webster's Bible Translation
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Bible in Basic English
If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His sede wil I make to endure for euer, yee and his Trone as the dayes of heauen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
Legacy Standard Bible
"If his sons forsake My lawAnd do not walk in My judgments,

Contextual Overview

19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, "I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king. 20 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil. 21 I will steady him with my hand; with my powerful arm I will make him strong. 22 His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him. 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him. 24 My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and by my authority he will grow in power. 25 I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers. 26 And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' 27 I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth. 28 I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: Psalms 132:12, 2 Samuel 7:14, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 7:17-22

forsake: Psalms 119:53, Proverbs 4:2, Proverbs 28:4, Jeremiah 9:13-16

walk: Ezekiel 18:9, Ezekiel 18:17, Ezekiel 20:19, Luke 1:6

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:5 - Mahlon 1 Kings 11:14 - an adversary 1 Kings 11:39 - not for ever 2 Chronicles 10:19 - Israel Job 34:33 - he will Psalms 119:75 - thou in Ezekiel 20:37 - I will Hebrews 12:6 - whom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If his children forsake my law,.... The same with the seed before mentioned, the children of the Messiah: it is not said "if he forsakes", which cannot be supposed of Christ, because he knew no sin, nor did any; which yet might be supposed of David, had he been literally meant; but not he, nor his natural children, but the spiritual seed of mystical David, are here designed, who may sin, and do sin, of which there is too much proof and evidence; and who sin not only through infirmity, but sometimes very grossly, and which sins are here expressed by various phrases: they sometimes "forsake the law of God"; do not attend to it, as they should, as the rule of their walk and conversation; are remiss in their observance of it, and obedience to it, and transgress its precepts; or his "doctrine" h, even the doctrine of the Gospel; which may be said to be forsaken when men grow indifferent to it; go off from it in any measure, drop their profession of it, or hold it remissly, or become careless in their attendance on it: forsaking the assembling together to hear it, in some sense, is a forsaking of it; and this the Lord takes notice of, and resents, in his people:

and walk not in my judgments; those laws of his house by which he judges, regulates, and governs his people; by which they are directed by him, as their Judge and Lawgiver, how to behave themselves in the church of God; and in which they are to walk, and continue in the observance of; and so to do is to walk as becomes the Gospel, and worthy of their calling; but to do otherwise is to walk disorderly; and such are cognizable by the Lord, and by his people.

h תורתי "verbum meaum revelatum", Gejerus; "legem et doctrinam meam", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If his children - His posterity; his successors on the throne.

Forsake my law - If they are not regulated by it in the administration of their government, and in their private lives. It is here supposed that they might forsake his law, or fail to observe it; but still there is the assurance that the power would not depart permanently from the successors of David, but that it would be restored ultimately to that line, and be permanent and eternal.

And walk not in my judgements - And do not obey my commandments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:30. If his children forsake my law2 Samuel 7:13, where this and some of the following verses are explained.


 
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