TMSJ 18:2 (Fall 2007) p. 185 New Covenant as stated in Scripture need to be summarized. The phrase, “New Covenant,” is only found in one passage in the OT, Jeremiah 31:31–34: “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made 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,