King David
(1000 B.C-960 B.C)
BY Camron Nembhart
WHO????
second King of the Israelites, is one of the most vividly portrayed characters in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a warrior, lawgiver, musician, and poet, loyal to his superiors, harsh in his judgments, ruthlessly cruel in war, but singled out by God for glory. He stands at the center of several crucial events in the history of the Israelites and has, accordingly, been a subject of exhaustive study among Jewish scholars for centuries. Christians have been almost equally fascinated with David, some seeing him as an Old Testament foreshadowing of Jesus, and others noting that Matthew's Gospel begins by tracing Jesus' lineage through the House of David. Whatever the reader's religious affiliation, the stories of King Davidhave an intrinsic fascination--there is no other ancient king of whose life we know so many details. As one recent historian noted: "The Biblical record gives us astonishingly vivid portraits of the principal actors in the national drama, portraits which rival and even surpass those we find in the finest Greek historians more than half a millennium later."
WHAT????
WHEN?
- Born: 1000 B.C
- Died: 960 B.C
WHERE???
WHY???
king David of the Hebrew bible
king david
palace of king David that they unearthed
WORKS CITED
"King David." Historic World Leaders. Gale, 1994. World History in Context. Web. 20 Nov. 2013.