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Where do you see God’s faithfulness to His people and His covenant with them demonstrated in 2 Samuel? Explain.
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God never stopped being faithful to His people. Although the people, including Saul, David and many others were constantly failing in their earthly faithfulness, God relented again, and again and restored His people. He had made a covenant with them, and He was sticking to that plan.
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He had allowed the people to have the king they had sought (Saul), but had chosen and brought to fruition a king who was set apart for His glory (David), one whose future kingdom would be eternal. God also gave His people victory over the people in the land He had given them, the last holdouts.
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He provided them with the entire Promised Land, completing it through David’s conquests as led by God. Then God made His covenant with David that an eternal king would come from his descendants.
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His covenant with David through Davids descendent Jesus.
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God’s covenant to his people was the Davidic covenant, where God told David that you will not build a house for me (the covenant that was physically there), but I will build a house, or family for you. He was letting David know that he was a man of war, and God wanted a house of peace. This is where Jesus comes into play. You see God’s faithfulness to His people in the beginning of 2 Samuel when David was honoring God, and God was rewarding him.