Tell your partner the story of Moses.

Baby rescued/ Pharaoh’s palace/ killed an../ ran awa/ burning bush/ 10

plagues/ Red Sea/ 10 Commandments/ wandering in desert 40yrs...

What would happen next?

• To describe key facts about King David

• To explain what the Covenant with King David involved

• To reflect on how God’s Covenants are developing

Covenant with King David

God is going to make a new Covenant. • not with a family this time (Noah,

Abraham), • nor with a tribe (Moses & Jewish slaves), • but with the Jewish nation of Israel and their

King !

So, who is this King?

1. Number the events of David’s life in order.

2. Watch the clip to check your order. Check with your partner.

3. Write out your order/ a summary of David’s life.

**What might have pleased God about David? What would not have pleased him?

a. Warrior – killed Goliathb. Had another son: Solomon, to be a man of peace, and inherit his father David’s throne.c. Prays to build God a temple - but God refuses – Solomon will be the one to do this.d. Anointed by a prophet to be God’s chosen Kinge. Sinned - committed adultery with Bathsheba, had her husband killed & married her: their son died. f. Shepherdg. Began to rule as King & fought many battles

f. Shepherdd. Anointed by a prophet to be God’s chosen Kinga. Warrior – killed Goliathg. Began to rule as King & fought many battles e. Sinned - committed adultery with Bathsheba, had her husband killed & married her: their son died. b. Had another son: Solomon, to be a man of peace, and inherit his father David’s throne.c. Prays to build God a temple - but God refuses – Solomon will be the one to do this.

Covenant with King David

2 Sam 7:8-16GOD

David

God spoke to Nathan the prophet: “Go tell my servant David this:

“I took you from the pasture, from tending the sheep, and appointed you as ruler over my people Israel. 

“Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth. I will give my people Israel a home of their own. I will give them rest from all their enemies. In addition, I will make your kingdom last forever, and a son from your descendants to be King forever.  I will be His father, and he will be my son.’”

Israel land of their own

Rest from enemies

Your kingdom will last forever

One of your descendants shall be a King forever

1. Identify 5 promises God makes to David. Add them to God’s speech bubble.

2. Which demands of Abraham and Moses’ Covenants do you think David also has to keep? Add them to David’s speech bubble.

**How will God fulfil the last promise?

Make your name great

Covenant with a family (Abraham) 2000 BC

Covenant with a tribe through a prophet (Jews from Egypt, Moses) 1500BC

Covenant with a nation & their King (Kingdom of Israel, King David) 1000 BC

1. Draw the flow diagram.2. How are the promises

changing? 3. How are the Covenants getting

bigger each time? 4. The Covenant through Jesus is

the last Covenant. How do you think that one will be different?1. What will it promise?2. Who will it be with?

(Lots of other kings, some good, some

bad. The Prophets).

Jesus’ is a descendant of King David through Joseph, his adopted father, and possibly also through Mary. He is in line for the throne..

When the angel visits Mary, to tell her she will have a son, the angel tells her:

“.. you shall call His name Jesus.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there will be no end."

God promised David that one of his sons would be a King forever.1. How is Jesus of royal birth?2. Copy out what God promised

Mary through the angel .3. How does that fulfil the

promise made to David, that a son of his would be King forever?

Joseph and Mary had to travel to Bethlehem, the City of David, for the Census, because they were both from the “House of David”.

David wrote half of the Psalms we hear in Church. Draw King David, with a harp, and in his mouth, what he could be singing to God.

Look up a Psalm from the Bible. Rewrite it in 3 verses in your own words. DO NOT COPY IT OUT!!

Psalm 101 Written by David

I will sing of your love and justice; to you, LORD, I will sing praise.

I will be careful to lead a blameless life—when will you come to me?

Every morning I will put to silenceall the wicked in the land;I will cut off every evildoerfrom the city of the LORD.