2 Chronicles 7:17-18

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. 1  7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, 2  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ 3 

1 tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”

sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18.

2 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

3 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”