19Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.


In Context

16 In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah.

17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.

18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord .

19 Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

20 In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.

21 So Jehoram went to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night; his army, however, fled back home.

2nd Kings 8:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:19Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, [and] to his children.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:19But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:19Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his children alway.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:19But Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him to give him always a lamp for his sons.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:19Howbeit the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give unto him a lamp for his children alway.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:19Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:19However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:19and Jehovah was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as He said to him, to give to him a lamp — to his sons all the days.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:19Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children.