Covenant

In Scripture

Where the words themselves appear in the World English Bible. Read each in its chapter before drawing a conclusion from it.

In the Imago Dei library

Our own studies: theological synthesis that reads many passages together, written from a stated point of view.

• Abraham

  A hundred years between promise and child, read chapter by chapter — where the New Testament picks the story up, where later tradition adds to it, and where the text is left to speak for itself.

• Noah

  Genesis 6–9 read as real history and the New Testament's own typology at once — judgment, an unlikely grace, and a covenant stretched over the whole earth before it narrows to one family.

• David

  The most fully documented human being in the Old Testament, sins and psalms both left on the page — read in order, from the secret anointing to the throne handed on, without editing out either half.

From a reference work

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.