2 Chronicles 7:18 (WEB)

Passage

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 7:16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 7:17 “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

2 Chronicles 7:18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "establish", "throne", "kingdom", "covenanted", "david", "father", "saying", and "shall". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "establish" and "throne", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "As for you if you will walk..." into verse 19's "But if you turn away and forsake...", so "establish" and "throne" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "establish" and "throne" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.