2 Samuel 7:1-17

Summary: At the same time that God tells David not to build him a ‘house’ (i.e. temple), he promises to build David a ‘house’ (i.e. dynasty), forever securing the throne of Israel in the lineage of David. This is the unconditional promise that Israel clung to during the days of the exile and was still clinging to when Jesus was born ‘to the house and the line of David.’ It reveals the incredible sovereignty of God over history and his faithfulness to his promise in spite of tremendous upheaval and wickedness on the stage of human history. In the end, the great story of history will not be about what humans have done or failed to do but about what God has done for us through Jesus Christ, the Son of David.