If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
Ver. 12. If thy children will keep my covenant] Although God's covenant is free, yet it is delivered under certain conditions on our part to be observed; which are as an oar in a boat, or stern in a ship, turning it this way or that, &c.
For evermore] For a long season; and Christ, for all eternity.