Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful

that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi friends, welcome back to Year in the

Bible. My name is Alexa and I'm joined by my co-hosts for this week, Katie. Hey, friends.

Today, we are going to be going a little bit deeper into the passage we annotated yesterday.

Second Samuel 7, 12 through 16.

So to start off our discussion, Alexa, can you share more with us about where this passage fits in the biblical story?

Yeah, so last week we discussed 1 Samuel 17, 41 through 50, which describes David's defeat of Goliath. We mentioned the

situation Israel was in with the other people groups around them, like the Philsteins, but we

didn't talk too much about David's situation. If you guys remember our discussion of 1 Samuel 2, 1 through 10, we talked about how Israel was without a leader or a king. But in Hannah's prayer, she prophesied how God was going to give power to his king and lift up the horn of his anointed. So Hannah's son, Samuel, becomes a priest who God uses to anoint the first king over Israel, Saul. Saul disobeys God,

so God chooses another person to be the anointed king, David. At the time David is chosen and

anointed, he's a young shepherd boy. But at the time of 2 Samuel 7, David is in his 30s,

and he's officially king of Israel, and he's a successful king at that. Second Samuel 1st

1st tells us that David had settled into his palace, and God had given him rest on every side

from all of his enemies. But as David sits in his palace, he

remarks to the prophet Nathan that while he has a house, God doesn't. Now, the Israelites still had the

tabernacle where God's presence dwelt, but that was it. So David desires to build God a house

or a temple where his people could worship him. However, God tells David

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