Exodus Chapters 21-24 - Israel Says, "I Do"

The chapters I asked you to read comprise the covenant-making ritual We want to link the idea of God’s “covenant” with “relationship” – there were other “social covenants”: political, commercial and relational • beneath the political and commercial covenants was a basic lack of trust ◦ in these contexts, covenants, contracts and treaties acted as guarantees • one of loveliest relational covenants was that of Jonathan and David