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Edited by Bill T. Arnold and Hugh G. M. Williamson, the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books is the second volume in IVP's Old Testament dictionary series. This volume picks up where the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch left off—with Joshua and Israel poised to enter the land—and carries us through the postexilic period. This encyclopedic work is characterized by in-depth...

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
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