User:RobertC/Davidic covenant

I'll keep a few running notes here from scriptures that Gileadi cites based on the Davidic covenant theme (see also Mosiah 29:38 and 1 Sam 8:7-9 incl. User:RobertC/OT Lesson 21 notes). I'll try to elaborate on the commentary pages as I have time (busy time of year with school starting next week...), but hope that posting these references might inspire others to write something too:

• Contrast with Sinai covenant in Joshua. Under the Sinai covenant, one person's unrighteousness seems to spoil the people's protection (see Josh 7:4ff).

• David. When David's righteous, the people are protected (1 Kgs 6:12-13), but when David is wicked, Israel is not protected (2 Sam 24:1, 13). David was called (like Saul) for the purpose of protecting Israel (2 Sam 3:18; 2 Sam 5:2; 2 Sam 7:8-9).

• Solomon. Compare 1 Kgs 6:12-13 with 1 Kgs 9:4, 6-7.

• Hezekiah as a Davidic king type. The claim here is that Isa 37:35 and Isa 38:6 are two verses that appear together in 2 Kgs 20:6. Gileadi claims "their division in Isaiah seems intended to link two separate incidents—the threat of Zion/Jerusalem's destruction by Assyria in chapters 36-37 and the threat of Hezekiah's death from a mortal illness in chapter 38—to a common context of Hezekiah's fidelity toward the Lord." Thus, Hezekiah's faithfulness is (somehow) related to his supplication in Isa 37:16-20 that the people be saved (also cf. 2 Kgs 20:6).

• Isa 37:35: "I will proetect this city and save it, for my own sake and the sake of my servant David." Here, the king's righteousness has a salvific effect on the people (prefiguring Christ?).

...much more to come (probably)