{"id":829,"date":"2004-08-21T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T09:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:49:21","slug":"conditionality-and-unconditionality-in-the-davidic-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2004\/08\/conditionality-and-unconditionality-in-the-davidic-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditionality and Unconditionality in the Davidic Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<\/head>

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In any case: The apparent problem is this. 2 Sam 7 seems to promise an eternal kingdom to David, unconditionally. To be sure, David\u2019s son (and later sons) will suffer discipline when they sin, but Yahweh promises never to remove his love from the house of David as he did with Saul. 1 Ki 2, by contrast, seems to indicate that the continuance of the Davidic dynasty depends on the kings\u2019 faithfulness to the law: \u201cIf your sons guard their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not be cut off a man from befor me on the throne of Israel\u201d (v 4). <\/p>\n

What do we do with that tension? It cannot be resolved except by the gospel. The continuation of the Davidic dynasty was dependent upon adherence to the law, yet failures did not keep Yahweh from raising the Davidic dynasty from the dead (which happens several times in Kings). Paul sees the gospel as addressing precisely this question, and his presentation of the gospel can be seen as an answer to precisely this tension: What the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did. The law could not preserve the Davidic dynasty, because the Davidic kings were flesh. But where the Law failed, Yahweh bared His arm and took things into His own hands. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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