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Bible Lesson 12 –
Book: 1 ChroniclesBook
Bible Lesson 12
Scripture Portion for Meditation: 1 Chronicles 17:7–14

In this passage, the Lord makes a covenant with David. The covenant is as follows:
“When your days are over and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
He is the one who will build a house for Me, and I will establish his throne forever.”
— 1 Chronicles 17:11–12
In the Bible, we can see seven kinds of covenants that God made.
After the prophecy in the Garden of Eden that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head, God continued to make five more covenants.
Brief Summary:

1️⃣ The Covenant with Adam –
This covenant took place before the fall of Adam and Eve into sin.
2️⃣ The Covenant with Noah –
God made a covenant with Noah after the flood.

3️⃣ The Covenant with Abraham –
God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him descendants and blessing.

4️⃣ The Covenant with Moses –
This covenant was made through the giving of the Law.

5️⃣ The Covenant with the Priest Aaron –
God established His covenant with Aaron and his descendants to serve as priests.

6️⃣ The Covenant with David –
This is the covenant where God promised that the Messiah’s kingdom would come through David’s line.
7️⃣ The New Covenant –
Fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
All these covenants are special, but it is in the covenant made with David that we find the promise of the Savior of the world — the reign of the Messiah.

When we meditate on the line of the Messiah, we see that after Abraham, Jacob receives a special place.
Although Jacob had twelve sons, the prophetic word declares that the Messiah would come through the tribe of Judah.
Jacob prophesied:

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until He to whom it belongs shall come;
and the obedience of the nations shall be His.”
— Genesis 49:10
Here, “He to whom the scepter belongs” refers to the Messiah.
Therefore, the Messiah must come from the tribe of Judah.
The first king of Israel, Saul, belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.

But according to God’s divine will, the kingship was taken from him and given to David, who belonged to the tribe of Judah.
After David, his son Solomon became king.
However, Solomon committed many mistakes and eventually fell into backsliding.
After Solomon, his son Rehoboam came to power.
Because Rehoboam listened to the counsel of the young men instead of the elders, the once united kingdom of Israel was divided into two:
Ten tribes formed the Kingdom of Israel, and
Judah stood separately as the Kingdom of Judah.
Thus, through Rehoboam — a descendant of David — the once united Israel became divided.
Later, the ten tribes of Israel were conquered by the Assyrians, lost their identity, and mingled among the nations.
But the Kingdom of Judah, the line of David, continued—and through that lineage, the Savior of the world, the Messiah, was born.
This cannot be understood by human wisdom—it happened solely according to the sovereign plan of God.
As it is written in 1 Kings 11:13,
God chose David, who was tending sheep, raised him up as king, helped his son Solomon build the temple, preserved his descendants, and established his kingdom forever.
Thus, the Messianic lineage runs from Abraham → Isaac → Jacob → David → Solomon → Jesus Christ.
This is the sovereignty of God.
This was the greatest grace given to David and his descendants.
No man, no ruler, not even a great servant of God can fully understand or explain the sovereignty of God.
No human being has the right or the authority to question God’s sovereignty.
Among all verses in Scripture, none explains it more clearly than this one
:
“Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by Him who calls.”


— Romans 9:1

God’s calling depends entirely on His sovereignty.
Therefore, let us honor the sovereignty of God and submit to it.
Let us not glorify human instruments beyond measure, but rather learn to honor the divine sovereignty of God who calls.