The Table of Grace

This chapter is not just about David’s covenant faithfulness to Jonathan it also represents God’s covenant faithfulness to His people. 

2 Samuel 9

• Extending mercy
• Covenant faithfulness
• Promise keeping
• Incredible grace

Reference

• 1 Samuel 10:13-14, 16-17; 24:20-22

Hesed

• Kindness -favor, good deed, merciful, pity
• “Wrapping up in itself all the positive attributes of God: love, faithfulness, mercy, grace, kindness, loyalty – in short, acts of devotion and loving kindness that go beyond the requirements of duty.” 

2 Samuel 9

• Lodebar – no pasture
• Machir – 17:27-29
• Mephibosheth – from the mouth of shame
• Merib-Baal – He who contends with Baal 

Mephibosheth

• Lameness
• Heriditary