The Abrahamic Covenant
This covenant was made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob individually but for all of their posterity as well. It is an everlasting covenant; it can’t be taken away and given to another. What can happen is if those of the lineage of Israel don’t do their part, God will not do his. But he has said that once Israel returns to Him, God will bless them again.
Genesis 12:1–3
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 13:14–17
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis 17:1–8
I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee… for an everlasting covenant…
Genesis 22:15–18
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed…
Deuteronomy 30:1-6
And [when you] shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
Jeremiah 31:10-13
He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord. . . . for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
The Mosaic Covenant
Sort of like our baptismal covenant today, the Mosaic covenant is a promise to live the laws and ordinances of the gospel. If the people follow the laws, they will be blessed. If they don’t follow, they will be cursed.
Exodus 19:4–6
If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. . . . And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Exodus 31:16–17
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath . . . for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever. . . .
Deuteronomy 30:15–20
I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
The Davidic Covenant
This covenant is between the leader of the people and God. If the leader follows God and the people follow the leader, then God will protect them and bless them. This is why the Assyrians didn’t invade Jerusalem when Hezekiah was king. He followed God and the people followed him and so God protected them. This covenant runs down through the generations to Christ; he is a descendent of David and is the future king.
2 Samuel 7:8–16
Thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:7–14
And I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
Psalm 89:3–4
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.
Psalm 89:34–36
My covenant will I not break. . . . His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
The New Covenant
The New Covenant is the gospel of Jesus Christ that He brought to the earth and then had Joseph Smith restore to the earth.
Jeremiah 31:31–34
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers . . . which my covenant they brake…
But this shall be the covenant that I will make . . . For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Doctrine and Covenants 1: 12-23
Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh; For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant. . . . Wherefore, I the Lord, knowing the calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and spake unto him from heaven, and gave him commandments. . . . That mine everlasting covenant might be established; That the fulness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and rulers.