David My servant shall be king over them and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes and do them. Then they shall dwell on the land that I have given to Jacob My servant where your fathers dwelt and they shall dwell there they their children and their children's children forever. My servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will establish them and multiply them and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them. Indeed I will be their God and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I the Lord sanctify Israel when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore. This is the ultimate of a covenant with a group of people. They are brought back to the land of Israel and the resurrected David is appointed to be their king and they go through the covenant process again where they have to learn to abide by the covenant. God says He will put His temple there His sanctuary and with this new group of Israelites He will do what He meant to do with Israel before. This time they will have the Spirit of God available and it will all go a lot better than the first time. The covenant of peace that is mentioned there in verse 26 between God and Israel establishes the bounds of the relationship. God is very intelligent. When He gathers the people He says Okay we are going to sit down and craft this contract. It is not so much crafting as the lesser the people of Israel accepting what God says. That is exactly what happened at Sinai at the first time. But He is going to say Okay this is the way it is going to be. This is David your king. And we are going to enforce this covenant and this is what you have to do. You have to keep My commandments My statutes and My judgments. You are going to have to come and do the things you need to do at My sanctuary and that is going to be a sign then of our agreement that I have come to sanctify Israel and everybody will know when looking from outside all the nations will say Hey these are God's people. Obviously because He put His sanctuary in their midst. And they are the ones that have the contract with God that says that they do what He says and they will be His people. So this covenant of peace provides eternal stability and prosperity. Because of what the Israelites have just gone through each side is now fully invested in the relationship. They come back weeping and say we messed up and we want to do what is right now so we are going to abide by the terms of the covenant. And so they will voluntarily and entirely as well as they can keep the terms of the agreement. This is what God has prophesied that it is going to take the worst years of their lives the worst years of anybody's lives on the face of the earth to finally pound it into the Israelites' heads that they need to follow God but the ones that come out the other end are going to say We will do it. We do not want to go through that again. We were dumb. We repent in dust and ashes. So what we have here in this covenant is the establishment of peace a condition of peace a state of peace through the covenant so that what. What is the endgame here. What does God establish the covenant to do. Well just like the covenant has always done it is the environment if you will for spiritual growth and entry into the Kingdom of God. God wants His people to be righteous and so He makes a covenant with them so that they can achieve those things with His help.