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The Davidic Covenant refers to God’s promises to David through Nathan the prophet and is found in 2 Samuel 7 and later summarized in 1 Chronicles 17:11–14 and 2 Chronicles 6:16.
The Davidic Covenant is a pivotal and unconditional agreement made between God and King David, through which God promised to establish David's lineage forever and to bring forth the Messiah, Jesus Christ, from his descendants.
The Davidic king would be the expression of God's theocratic rule in Israel. He was to reflect the righteous rule of the divine King. He was also to lead Israel in the faithful observance of the Mosaic law. The Abrahamic covenant had promised a realm and a people for God's kingdom.
The Davidic Covenant. Second Samuel 7:8–16 records a covenant established by God with David, wherein God made three major promises to David. First, God promised that David’s “house” (his physical line of descent) would endure forever (v. 16; cf. 2 Chr. 21:7; Ps. 89:3–4, 36).
God's Covenant with David. 2 Samuel 7:12–17 does what a lot of prophetic passages do: it takes an extended telescope of events and collapses it down so that the near and distant events are viewed together.
The Fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant. The importance of the promise of God to David regarding his posterity and his throne has been frequently ignored in treatments of the field of eschatology. Those who deny the inspiration of the Scriptures are at no pains to weigh its significance.
The Davidic covenant is a covenant that took place between King David and God, when King David made plans to build God a house of cedar.
God’s Covenant with David. 7 Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies all around, 2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains.”
Second Samuel 7:1–17 is one of the most important passages in the entire Bible for understanding God’s covenantal plan of salvation. The Davidic covenant recorded therein is also the high point of the Old Testament Historical Books.
The Davidic covenant is an important element in Jewish messianism and Christian theology. In Jewish eschatology, the messiah is believed to be a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who will be anointed with holy anointing oil, gather the Jews back into the Land of Israel, ...