Especially central to this programmatic plan is the covenant between Yahweh and David in 2 Samuel 7. As we have seen, God’s promises that David’s son would build a temple in Jerusalem and that God would establish a permanent Davidic dynasty were unequivocally taken as a “covenant” in *innerbiblical exegesis, even though the term bĕrît does not appear in 2 Samuel 7 itself (see 2 Sam 23:5; cf. 1 Kings 8:23–24; 2 Chron 21:7; Ps 89:1–4, 19–37). In this sense, the Davidic covenant is a vital link in