Within the TaNaKh/Hebrew Scriptures
● marks the context of verses that indicated a previous word was fulfilled
▸ marks the context of the referent verses that are being fulfilled. If there are multiple referent verses, there may be several ▸’s before the next ●. There is a space inserted before each new passage saying a word was fulfilled, and again, index passages are in red, referent in indigo.
●Joshua 23:9-16
9 For YHWH has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. 10 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is YHWH your God who fights for you, just as he promised you. 11 Be very careful, therefore, to love YHWH your God. 12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 13 know for certain that YHWH your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that YHWH your God has given you.
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that YHWH your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. 15 But just as all the good things that YHWH your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled (h935. בּוֹא bô’ g1863. ἐπάγω epagō) for you, so YHWH will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that YHWH your God has given you, 16 if you transgress the covenant of YHWH your God, which he directed you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”
▸ Leviticus 26
Good for Obedience
1 “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am YHWH your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am YHWH.
3 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my directions and do them, 4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
Evil for Disobedience
14 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these directions, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my directions, but break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
23 “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, 24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
34 “Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
40 “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Ya’akov, and I will remember my covenant with Yitzchak and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43 But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am YHWH their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am YHWH.”
46 These are the boundaries and justice and teaching that YHWH gave between himself and the people of Israel through Moshe on Mount Sinai.
●1 Samuel 3:10-21
10 And YHWH came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.” 11 Then Yahovah said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. 12 On that day I will fulfill (h6965. קוּם qûm g1892. ἐπεγείρω epegeirō) against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 13 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. 14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”
15 Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahovah. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. 16 But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.” 17 And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.” 18 So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is YHWH. Let him do what seems good to him.”
19 And Samuel grew, and YHWH was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of YHWH. 21 And YHWH appeared again at Shiloh, for YHWH revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of YHWH.
▸ 1 Samuel 2:30-36
30 Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now YHWH declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men. 34 And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day. 35 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever. 36 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”
▸ 1 Samuel 3:18-21 (LITV) 18 And Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide from him. And he said, It is YHWH; He does that which is good in His eyes. 19 And Samuel grew up, and YHWH was with him, and did not let any of his words fall to the earth. 20 And all Israel knew, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, that Samuel was confirmed to be a prophet to YHWH. 21 And YHWH again appeared in Shiloh. For YHWH revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh, by the Word of YHWH.
▸ 1 Samuel 4 (LITV) 1 And the word of Samuel was revealed to all Israel. And Israel went out to meet the Philistines for battle. And they pitched beside Ebenezer, and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. 2 And the Philistines set themselves in order to meet Israel, and the battle was spread. And Israel was stricken before the Philistines. And they struck about four thousand men from the battle line in the field. 3 And the people came into the camp, and the elders of Israel said, Why has YHWH stricken us today before the Philistines? Let us take the ark of the covenant of YHWH to us, and let it come into our midst; and it will save us from the hand of our enemies. 4 And the people sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of YHWH of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubs. And the two sons of Eli were there with the ark of the covenant of God, Hophni and Phinehas. 5 And it happened, when the ark of the covenant of YHWH came into the camp, all Israel shouted a great shout, and the earth shook. 6 And the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, and said, What is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they saw that the ark of YHWH had come into the camp. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God has come to the camp. And they said, Woe to us! For never has it been like this before. 8 Woe to us! Who will deliver us out of the hand of these great gods? These are the gods who struck Egypt with every plague in the wilderness. 9 Make yourselves strong and become men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews, as they were slaves to you. Then you must be men and fight. 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was beaten. And they each one fled to his tent. And the blow was very great, and thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell. 11 And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli died, Hophni and Phinehas. 12 And a man of Benjamin ran out of the battle line and came to Shiloh on that day. And his clothes were torn, and earth on his head. 13 And he came in. And, behold, Eli was sitting on the seat by the side of the highway, watching. For his heart trembled for the ark of God. And the man came in to report in the city. And all the city cried out. 14 And Eli heard the noise of the cry, and said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man hurried and came and reported to Eli. 15 And Eli was ninety eight years old, and his eyes were set, and he was not able to see. 16 And the man said to Eli, I am he who has come from the ranks, and I fled today out of the battle line. And he said, How did the matter go, my son? 17 And he bearing the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines; and also there has been a great slaughter among the people. And also your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas. And the ark of God has been taken. 18 And it happened when he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward, by the side of the gate. And his neck was broken, and he died. For the man was old and heavy. And he judged Israel forty years. 19 And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child, about to bear. And she heard the report of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband had died. And she bowed and bore, for her pains had turned in on her. 20 And at the time of her death, when the women who stood by her said, Fear not, for you have borne a son; she did not even answer, nor set her heart. 21 And she called the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because of the taking of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.
●1 Kings 8:12-26
12 Then Solomon said, “YHWH has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 13 I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 14 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. 15 And he said, “Blessed be YHWH, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled (h4390. מָלֵא mālē’ g4137. πληρόω plēroō) what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying, 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’ 17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel. 18 But YHWH said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 19 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’ 20 Now YHWH has fulfilled (h6965. קוּם qûm h450. ἀνίστημι anistēmi) his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH promised, and I have built the house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel. 21 And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of YHWH that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication
22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of YHWH in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven, 23 and said, “YHWH, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart; 24 you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled (h4390. מָלֵא mâlê’ g4137. πληρόω plēroō) it this day. 25 Now therefore, YHWH, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ 26 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed (h0539. אָמַן ’âman g4104. πιστόω pistoō), which you have spoken to your servant David my father.
▸2 Samuel 7:1-29
YHWH’s Covenant with David
1 Now when the king lived in his house and YHWH had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, 2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” 3 And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for YHWH is with you.”
4 But that same night the word of YHWH came to Nathan, 5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says YHWH: Would you build me a house to dwell in? 6 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. 7 In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’ 8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says YHWH of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 9 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, 11 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, YHWH declares to you that YHWH will make you a house. 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” 17 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
18 Then King David went in and sat before Yahovah and said, “Who am I, O Lord YHWH, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord YHWH. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord YHWH! 20 And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord YHWH! 21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 22 Therefore you are great, YHWH God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 24 And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, YHWH, became their God. 25 And now, YHWH God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken. 26 And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘YHWH of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 27 For you, YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. 28 And now, O Lord YHWH, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 29 Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord YHWH, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”
●1 Kings 12:4-15
4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.” 5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.
6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” 7 And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” 8 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 9 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” 10 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. 11 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.” 13 And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, 14 he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by YHWH that he might fulfill (h6965. קוּם qûm g2476. ἵστημι histēmi) his word, which YHWH spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
▸1 Kings 11:9-13 1 Kings 11:9-10 (ESV) 9 And YHWH was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from YHWH, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what YHWH commanded. 11 Therefore YHWH said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 12 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Yerushalayim that I have chosen.”
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▸1 Kings 11:26-38
26 Jeroboam/Yarabe’am the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. 27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father. 28 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Yosef. 29 And at that time, when Jeroboam/Yarabe’am went out of Yerushalayim, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam/Yarabe’am, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says YHWH, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon/Shlomo and will give you ten tribes 32 (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), 33 because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did. 34 Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. 35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, ten tribes. 36 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Yerushalayim, the city where I have chosen to put my name. 37 And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. 38 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
●2 Chronicles 1:7-13
Solomon Prays for Wisdom
7 In that night God appeared to Solomon/Shlomo, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.” 8 And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place. 9 YHWH God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled (h0539. אָמַן ’âman g4104. πιστόω pistoō), for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?” 11 God answered Shlomo, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king, 12 wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.” 13 So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Yerushalayim. And he reigned over Israel.
▸referring to 2 Samuel 7, as referenced above
●2 Chronicles 6:1-17
Solomon Blesses the People
1 Then Solomon said, “YHWH has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 2 But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.” 3 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. 4 And he said, “Blessed be YHWH, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled (h4390. מָלֵא mālē’ g4137. πληρόω plēroō what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying, 5 ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; 6 but I have chosen Yerushalayim that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’ 7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel. 8 But YHWH said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 9 Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’ 10 Now YHWH has fulfilled (h6965. קוּם qûm h450. ἀνίστημι anistēmi) his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as YHWH promised, and I have built the house for the name of YHWH, the God of Israel. 11 And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of YHWH that he made with the people of Israel.”
12 Then Solomon/Shlomo stood before the altar of YHWH in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 13 Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven, 14 and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart, 15 who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled (h4390. מָלֵא mâlê’ g4137. πληρόω plēroō) it this day. 16 Now therefore, YHWH, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’ 17 Now therefore, O Lord, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed (h0539. אָמַן ’âman g4104. πιστόω pistoō), which you have spoken to your servant David.
▸ This is an almost direct duplicate of 1 Kings 8:12-26, above, and similarly references 2 Samuel 7
●2 Chronicles 10:15
15 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that YHWH might fulfill (h6965. קוּם qûm g450. ἀνίστημι anistēmi) his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
▸ same referenced verses in 1 Kings as above
●2 Chronicles 36:17-23
Yerushalayim Captured and Burned
17 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. 19 And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Yerushalayim and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. 20 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill (h3615. כָּלָה ḵâlâ g4137. πληρόω plēroō) the word of YHWH by the mouth of Yermiyahu, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
The Proclamation of Cyrus
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH by the mouth of Yermiyahu might be fulfilled (h3615. כָּלָה ḵâlâ g4137. πληρόω plēroō), YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: 23 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘YHWH, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.’”
▸ Jeremiah 27:1-14
The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
1 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah/Y’shiah, king of Yehuda, this word came to Yermiyahu from YHWH. 2 Thus YHWH said to me: “Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck. 3 Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Yerushalayim to Zedekiah king of Yehuda. 4 Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: 5 “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
8 “‘“But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares YHWH, until I have consumed it by his hand. 9 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. 11 But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares YHWH.”’”
12 To Zedekiah king of Yehuda I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live. 13 Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as YHWH has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
▸Jeremiah 25:8-14
8 “Therefore thus says YHWH of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9 behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares YHWH, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares YHWH, making the land an everlasting waste. 13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Yermiyahu prophesied against all the nations. 14 For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
▸Jeremiah 29:7-16
7 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to YHWH on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. 8 For thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, 9 for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares YHWH.
10 “For thus says YHWH: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares Yahovah, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares YHWH, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares YHWH, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
15 “Because you have said, ‘YHWH has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’ 16 thus says YHWH concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:
▸ Jeremiah 33:10-21
10 “Thus says YHWH: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Yehuda and the streets of Yerushalayim that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again 11 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of YHWH:
“‘Give thanks to YHWH of hosts,
for YHWH is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!’
For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says YHWH.
12 “Thus says YHWH of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks. 13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Yerushalayim, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says YHWH.
The Lord’s Eternal Covenant with David
14 “Behold, the days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Yehuda. 15 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days Yehuda will be saved, and Yerushalayim will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘YHWH is our righteousness.’
17 “For thus says YHWH: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 18 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”
19 The word of YHWH came to Yermiyahu: 20 “Thus says YHWH: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, 21 then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.
▸Isaiah 44:24-28
24 Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer,
who formed you from the womb:
“I am YHWH, who made all things,
who alone stretched out the heavens,
who spread out the earth by myself,
25 who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
26 who confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Yerushalayim, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;
27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;
28 who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,
and he shall fulfill all my purpose’;
saying of Yerushalayim, ‘She shall be built,’
and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”
▸Isaiah 45:1-7 (ESV) 1 Thus says YHWH to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and level the exalted places,
I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, YHWH,
the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
4 For the sake of my servant Ya’akov,
and Israel my chosen,
I call you by your name,
I name you, though you do not know me.
5 I am YHWH, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
I equip you, though you do not know me,
6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun
and from the west, that there is none besides me;
I am YHWH, and there is no other.
7 I form light and create darkness,
I make well-being and create calamity,
I am YHWH, who does all these things.
●Ezra 1
The Proclamation of Cyrus
1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH by the mouth of Yermiyahu might be fulfilled (h3615. כָּלָה ḵâlâ g5055. τελέω teleō), YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: YHWH, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda. 3 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda, and rebuild the house of YHWH, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Yerushalayim. 4 And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Yerushalayim.”
5 Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Yehuda and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of YHWH that is in Yerushalayim. 6 And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered. 7 Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of YHWH that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Yerushalayim and placed in the house of his gods. 8 Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Yehuda. 9 And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers, 10 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels; 11 all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Yerushalayim.
▸ Jer. 25:8-14; 29:7-16, as listed above
▸ Isa. 44:24-28, as above
●Jeremiah 33:14-21
The Lord’s Eternal Covenant with David
14 “Behold, the days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will fulfill (h6965. קוּם qûm – not a direct translation in Septuagint) the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Yehuda. 15 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days Yehuda will be saved, and Yerushalayim will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘YHWH is our righteousness.’
17 “For thus says YHWH: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 18 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”
19 The word of YHWH came to Yermiyahu: 20 “Thus says YHWH: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, 21 then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.
▸Jeremiah 29:10-14
10 “For thus says YHWH: When seventy years are completed (h4390. מָלֵא mâlê’ – cannot locate in Septuagint) for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill (h6965. קוּם qûm – cannot locate in Septuagint) to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares YHWH, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares YHWH, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares YHWH, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
▸2 Samuel 7:12-17
12 When your days are fulfilled (h4390. מָלֵא mâlê’ g4137. πληρόω plēroō) and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” 17 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.
▸1 Kings 2:1-4
David’s Instructions to Solomon
1 When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 2 “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 3 and keep the charge of YHWH your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Torah of Moshe, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, 4 that YHWH may establish (h6965. קוּם qûm g2476. ἵστημι histēmi) his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
▸Psalm 89:1-4
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the steadfast love of YHWH, forever;
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;
in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”
3 You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:
4 ‘I will establish (h3559. כּוּן kûn g3618. οἰκοδομέω oikodoméō ) your offspring forever,
and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah
●Jeremiah 39:15-18
15 The word of YHWH came to Yermiyahu while he was shut up in the court of the guard: 16 “Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says YHWH of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill (h0935. בּוֹא bô’) my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day. 17 But I will deliver you on that day, declares YHWH, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. 18 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares YHWH.’”
▸ as above
●Daniel 4:19-33
19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies! 20 The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth, 21 whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived— 22 it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth. 23 And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’ 24 this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, 25 that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will. 26 And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules. 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”
28 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30 and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” 31 While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, 32 and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.” 33 Immediately the word was fulfilled (h5487. סוּף sûp̱; [Aramaic] corresponding to h5486. סוּף sûp̱ g5055. τελέω teleō) against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.
▸This is a unique example making very clear the relationship of the “word” to its fulfillment. Both the word and the fulfillment are in the same context; note the wording: “Immediately the word was fulfilled” (perhaps for the protection of Daniel?).
The first issue that the reader may have discerned is that we have seen six different Hebrew words that have been translated into English as “fulfill.” We will look at a summary of definitions of these words:
(CWSBD) H6965. קוּם qûm: A verb meaning to arise, to stand, to stand up
(CWSBD) H4390. מָלֵא mālē’: A verb meaning to fill, to be full, to be complete, to fulfill, to finish, to satisfy.
(CWSBD) H539. אָמַן ’āman: A verb meaning to be firm, to build up, to support, to nurture, or to establish.
(CWSBD) H3615. כָּלָה kālāh: A verb meaning to complete, to accomplish, to end, to finish, to fail, to exhaust.
(CWSBD) H935. בּוֹא bô’: A verb meaning to come, to go, to bring.
(CWSBD) H5486. סוּף sûp̱: A verb meaning to come to an end, to cease, to terminate.
The Septuagint translation is included after the Hebrew word. We will look at those (and if needed, other) Greek words in the next Post, which will be looking at the Greek instances of “fulfill,” referring back to the Hebrew Scriptures. If necessary, we will then go into more detailed definitions than the brief ones listed above.
Also included, translated as “establish” in Psalm 89:4 is (CWSBD) H3559. כּוּן kûn: A verb meaning to set up, to make firm, to establish, to prepare.
Undoubtedly some of the confusion in the understanding of “to fulfill” is the use of the same English word for so many different Hebrew words. It has been mentioned many times before that this creates many misunderstandings.
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