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Davidic Covenant: God established a covenant with David that the messiah will come from David’s descendants (2 Sam. 7). This covenant did not task the Jewish people or Gentiles with any new commandments to fulfill.
With God’s favor upon him, David quickly conquers much of the surrounding region and takes Jerusalem as his capital. It is here that the Davidic Covenant is established when God promises to David a son who will “build God’s temple, be the Son of God, and rule over Israel forever.”
2 Samuel 7:8-29 is a record of the Davidic Covenant establishing David and his descendants as kings of the United Monarchy of Israel. The text is in two parts. In the first part, Yahweh, through Nathan his messenger, reminds David of what he has done and will do in the future to preserve and protect the kingship of Israel in David’s line.
One of the most fruitful advances in biblical scholarship since the Second World War has been in the understanding of covenant. The eluci- dation of various extra-biblical treaties, especially those of the Hittite Em- pire of the Late Bronze Age, has proven immensely heuristic.
Description. In this article Stephen Pimentel examines Pope Benedict XVI's theology of covenant and why it is considered the master key to a unified Christocentric interpretation of Scripture....
The Davidic Covenant Four centuries after the Exodus and the Mosaic covenant, God made a different kind of covenant with David and his house. This was not a covenant that determined the way of life of the people as the Mosaic covenant did, for the Mo-saic covenant remained in force in that regard and David was praised for his fidelity to it.
This part of the essay will examine the crucial role the Davidic covenant played in God’s plan for Israel as both fulfillment of God’s previous’ promises and as an authentic new stage of development, which came to serve as the future eschatological ideal.
