The Davidic Covenant is recorded in 2 Samuel 7:4-17.

This Covenant reveals that YHWH will use His people to prepare the way for the Messiah.

The ancient Hebrews lived under a theocracy, meaning they were directly governed by our CREATOR according to the Order of Melchizedek.

• There was no centralized earthly authority.
• There was no central high church, synagogue, or high priest, rendering moral decisions.
• Home worship was commonplace.
• The national leadership came from individuals called Judges, they were people who were called out by YHWH to guide the people in HIS ways.
  • Judges received their guidance from YHWH.
  • The last person to rule as Judge was the prophet Samuel.
  • As Samuel grew older, the people no longer felt secure in their system of government and asked Samuel to appoint them a human king modeled after their pagan neighbors.
  • Samuel was distraught, he felt the people had rejected him. YHWH reassured him, they have not rejected him (Samuel), but rather had rejected YHWH and HIS rule over them. YHWH hears the people and grants them their king.
    • But first YHWH told Samuel to warn the people about what this would bring into the peoples' lives. 2 Samuel 8:11-18.
    • Previously, YHWH granted rights directly to all the people equally. What GOD grants, no man can take away.
    • But with a king between them and their GOD, the king receives power from GOD and then the king grants rights to his people. The problem is, what the king gives, the king can take away, and this system of government will always take more then it gives in return. Not at all what God intended.
    • The Israelites got their first human king, Saul, an inconsequential fool and a bungler, a poor substitute for the charismatic Judges of the past but a king befitting the people who demanded him.
    • This Biblical lesson on government — that we get the leaders we deserve — is still valid in today’s government and political leadership.

King David

After David defeated the giant Philistine Goliath, he becomes king (1 Samue17). King David was a military genius who loved YHWH. He was not without sin, but he always repented and asked forgiveness. He was "a man after YHWH’S own heart."

King David set his sights on the land inhabited by the Jebusites, today it is known as Jerusalem. The area known today as Mount Moriah or the Temple mount, was a threshing floor and he purchased it from its Jebusite owner Araunah for the fair market value of fifty shekels of silver. He did not want blood spilt where he planned to build the Temple to YHWH (2 Samuel24:16-24). He planned a beautiful city there and called it the “City of David” and moved the nation’s capital there from Hebron.

Because King David had blood on his hand from having Bathsheba husband killed, YHWH would not let him build the Temple, that project would fall to his son Solomon (2 Samuel 11-12).

David wrote most of the book of Psalms.

YHWH made an unconditional and unbreakable Covenant with David, assuring that his dynasty would continue unbroken forever.

This would be the last Covenant made with the complete nation of Israel.

The Davidic Covenant has three everlasting promises. Disobedience does not cancel this Covenant, it is everlasting.

• A Land Forever (2 Samuel 7:10)
• An Unending Dynasty (2 Samuel 7:16)
• An Everlasting Kingdom (2 Samuel 7:13, 16)