God's Covenant with David
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Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the Lord is with you.”
Q: What do we observe?
This is during a time of peace when David has conquered many or most of his enemies.
God gave David rest from his enemies
David is King, he really rich and has gold, jewlery, servants etc.
When he is resting he realizes. I live in this incredible home yet God’s presence is in a tent.
Nathan is a prophet who David is telling this to.
What does this tell you about David? What kind of person is he?
But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in? I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’
Q: What was God’s response?
God never commanded anyone make Him a house. Even though the Ark of the Covenant was the location where God would dwell.
It was customary for people to built temples dedicated to their gods. God until this point in history has not commanded that, only a tent. The tent’s purpose was to be able to be moved from place to place.
And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.
This is where God responds and reminds David of what He has done for him and the entire nation and His promises to His chosen people.
Now comes the covenant, its not referred to as a covenant but in Psalms 89:3 it does refer to this as a covenant.
You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ”
What is the covenant here?
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the Lord; I have spoken.
“And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the Lord, going before them.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
The building of a large temple for a diety was to imply that the god lived there. God’s presence was known and felt by the way that he moved through the leaders of Israel. Through David himself, as God brought him as a shepard, the smallest and lest likely of his brothers to be picked. It was clear that God was with David all along the way.
David did not have to build a building for God because His present was with David the entire time