Daniel 2:44

2:44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Daniel 4:34

4:34 But at the end of the appointed time ¹  I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up ²  toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me.

I extolled the Most High,

and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever.

For his authority is an everlasting authority,

and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

Psalms 145:13

145:13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, ³ 

and your dominion endures through all generations.

Isaiah 9:7

9:7 His dominion will be vast ⁴ 

and he will bring immeasurable prosperity. ⁵ 

He will rule on David’s throne

and over David’s kingdom, ⁶ 

establishing it ⁷  and strengthening it

by promoting justice and fairness, ⁸ 

from this time forward and forevermore.

The Lord’s intense devotion to his people ⁹  will accomplish this.

Luke 1:33

1:33 He ¹⁰  will reign over the house of Jacob ¹¹  forever, and his kingdom will never end.”

John 12:34

12:34 Then the crowd responded, ¹²  “We have heard from the law that the Christ ¹³  will remain forever. ¹⁴  How ¹⁵  can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

[4:34]  ¹ tn Aram “days.”

[4:34]  ² tn Aram “lifted up my eyes.”

[145:13]  ³ tn Heb “a kingdom of all ages.”

[9:7]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text has לְםַרְבֵּה (lÿmarbeh), which is a corrupt reading. לם is dittographic; note the preceding word, שָׁלוֹם (shalom). The corrected text reads literally, “great is the dominion.”

[9:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “and to peace there will be no end” (KJV and ASV both similar). On the political and socio-economic sense of שָׁלוֹם (shalom) in this context, see the note at v. 6 on “Prince of Peace.”

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “over the throne of David, and over his kingdom.” The referent of the pronoun “his” (i.e., David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:7]  ⁷ tn The feminine singular pronominal suffix on this form and the following one (translated “it” both times) refers back to the grammatically feminine noun “kingdom.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “with/by justice and fairness”; ASV “with justice and with righteousness.”

[9:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the zeal of the Lord.” In this context the Lord’s “zeal” refers to his intense devotion to and love for his people which prompts him to vindicate them and to fulfill his promises to David and the nation.

[1:33]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. A new sentence is begun here in the translation because of the length of the sentence in Greek.

[1:33]  ¹¹ tn Or “over Israel.”

[12:34]  ¹² tn Grk “Then the crowd answered him.”

[12:34]  ¹³ tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

[12:34]  ¹⁴ tn Probably an allusion to Ps 89:35-37. It is difficult to pinpoint the passage in the Mosaic law to which the crowd refers. The ones most often suggested are Ps 89:36-37, Ps 110:4, Isa 9:7, Ezek 37:25, and Dan 7:14. None of these passages are in the Pentateuch per se, but “law” could in common usage refer to the entire OT (compare Jesus’ use in John 10:34). Of the passages mentioned, Ps 89:36-37 is the most likely candidate. This verse speaks of David’s “seed” remaining forever. Later in the same psalm, v. 51 speaks of the “anointed” (Messiah), and the psalm was interpreted messianically in both the NT (Acts 13:22, Rev 1:5, 3:14) and in the rabbinic literature (Genesis Rabbah 97).

[12:34]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “And how”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.