1. What is a covenant?
2. Who did God make a covenant with?
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, "As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed
after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark,
even every beast of the earth. Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, and there shall
never again be a flood to destroy the earth." (Gen 9:8-11, LSB)
On that day Yahweh cut a covenant with Abram, saying,
your seed I have given this land,
From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
the Kenite and the Kenizzite
and the Kadmonite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite." (Gen
15:18-21, LSB)
Now Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell
the sons of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I lifted you up on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. So now then,
if you will indeed listen to My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and
you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel." (Ex 19:3-6, LSB)
So now, thus you shall say to My servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I Myself took you from the pasture, from following
the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. And I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will
make you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they
may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the unrighteous will not afflict them any more as formerly, even from the day that I commanded
judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh also declares to you that Yahweh will make a house for you. When
your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up one of your seed after you, who will come forth from your own 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. (2 Sam 7:8-13, LSB)
"Behold, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
not like the covenant which I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,
but I was a husband to them," declares Yahweh. (Jer 31:31-32, LSB)