2 Chronicles 7:17-18 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel."
17"Wena-ke, nangabe ungahamba embikwami ulingise uyihlo Davide, wente konkhe lengikuyala ngako, ugcine timiso tami nemitsetfo yami, 18ngiyawusimisa sihlalo sakho sebukhosi, njengobe ngametsembisa Davide, uyihlo, ngesikhatsi ngitsi: 'Akuyikwenteka kutsi weswele umuntfu loyawuba ngumbusi wema-Israyeli.'