If the Davidic Covenant represented the high point of David's kingship, the episode that began David's involvement with Bathsheba was its low point. Many regard this episode in purely personal terms as a matter of moral failure and a powerful example of the danger of unguarded eyes and an undisciplined heart. But David's encounter with Bathsheba serves a much greater role in the biblical storyline: It initiated the beginning of the end of David's house and kingdom. This undoing is particularly significant when considered in relation to the Davidic Covenant with its promise of the everlasting establishment of David's house, throne and kingdom. Thus the Bathsheba episode acted to establish a tension in salvation history that would continue until the coming of Christ. The God who had previously pledged to build David's royal house and establish his kingdom forever was now going to tear down that house and kingdom in judgment against his actions. In view of the decreed and certain demise of David's house - most powerfully attested in the subsequent severing of his royal line in Jehoiachin, how would God's covenant with David be fulfilled?
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