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King David
One of the most storied and beloved kings of the Old Testament, King David is a well known religious figure. Questions about King David can be asked and answered here.
569 Questions
What disease killed King David?
1 Kings 2:1 says that David died of old age, "when the days of David drew nigh".
Why did King David hate the lame and the blind so much 2 Samuel 5 v 8?
You have to read the account very carefully. Here, the Bible isn't talking about literal lame and blind people. David was conducting a military campaign against the Jubusites. The Jebusites were so confident that their citadel (or fortress) was so impregnable that they taunted David, saying that even their feeble, lame, and blind could defend the fortress of Zion against him and his forces.-2Sa 5:6, 8.
Why did Methuselah live so much longer than King David?
Another answer from our community:
Adam lived for 930 years, Methuselah lived for 969 years and so on. Evil was increasing on earth since people were living for about 1000 years (even when people know they are going to live only 100 years see how much evil going on in our present day). Then God said in Genesis 6:3 that He would reduce the life span to 120 years. This is the reason why David did not live as much as Methuselah.
Gen_6:3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
One of the outcome from the Human Genome Project was that the possibility of living in this current human body for 1 to 2,000 years. This is another proof from the modern day science that the ages recorded in the Genesis are literal ages. If people were making up stories why would they write something hard to believe? It was the fact that Methuselah lived 969 literal years. Adam was still living when the tenth generation Noah was born! This is the reason why we have the accurate account in the Bible about the events and people. Below is a list years each person lived on the earth upto Isaac the father of Jacob who became Israel.
Adam
930
Seth
912
Enosh
905
Cainan
910
Mahalalel
895
Jared
962
Enoch
365
Methuselah
969
Lamech
777
Noah
950
Shem
600
Arphaxad
438
Salah
433
Eber
464
Peleg
239
Reu
239
Serug
230
Nahor
148
Terah
205
Abraham
175
Isaac
180
What were two achievement of King David?
The biblical King David is famous for slaying the Philistine giant, Goliath, and for building a great empire that extended far to the north and east of Israel.
The supposed reason David was accepted as king was his defeat in single combat of the Philistine giant Goliath, yet the author of Chronicles, which was a later rewrite of the Deuteronomic History, seems to have found this story so improbable that Chronicles does not even mention it.
During the course of the twentieth century, scholars began to doubt the biblical story of David's expansive empire, with opinions divided between those who continued to believe the Bible account to be literally true ('maximalists'), and those who detected nationalistic exaggeration and felt that Israel never really expanded beyond its traditional borders ('minimalists'). Archaeological excavations at northern sites, such as Megiddo in lower Galilee, found evidence of sophisticated fortifications that were immediately attributed to Kings David and Solomon and seen as evidence of Israelite expansion under David.
More recent archaeological analysis suggests that the archaeological finds in places such as Megiddo should be dated to a later century. Gradually, evidence has emerged that Israel and Judah were too small and impoverished during the tenth century BCE to ever be a threat to their neighbours, and that there probably never was a United Monarchy of Israel. A developing consensus among scholars is that David was, at best, a local warlord with a small territory surrounding Jerusalem.
Why can't you find anything on King David as a Catholic saint?
King David is an Old Testament personage and people from the Old Testament, even if they might be in Heaven, are not generally given the title of saint.
What is the plot summary of King David?
King David was born sometime around 1050 B.C. and died in 970 B.C. Was anointed by Samuel to be the successor to King Saul (without Saul's knowledge) because Saul had turned away from God. He became known for killing Goliath and eventually became the leader of Saul's armies. Saul became violently jealous of David's popularity and tried to have him killed, which resulted in David fleeing and going into hiding until Saul's death. When Saul died David became King of Israel and re-united all twelve tribes, reigning for about 40 years. He was succeeded by his son Solomon. I recommend reading 1&2 Samuel to get the whole story. :)
Were both of Jesus' parents descendants of King David?
Yes. The Gospel accounts of Matthew and Luke confirm that Jesus came through that family line of King David. (Matthew 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38) Though Jesus had many bitter enemies, none of them challenged his well-publicized line of descent. (Matthew 21:9, 15) Clearly, then, his lineage is beyond question.
Was a young girl at King David's his sickbed before he died and what did she do for him?
was there a young girl beside King David's bed before he died, and what was she doing there
There are a total of 150 psalms, 50 of which the authorship is unknown, and King David wrote 73 of the 100 remaining psalms. John MacArthur in his Study Bible notes on Psalms says:
The comphrensive literary characteristic of the psalms is that they are all poetry par-excellence. Unlike most English poetry, which is based on rhyme and meter, Hebrew poetry is essentially characterized by logical parallelisms. Some of the most important kinds of parallelisms are:
1) synonymous (the thought of the first line is restated with similar concepts in the second line.
2)ntithetic (the thought of the second line is contrasted with the first.
3)climactic (the second and any subsequent lines pick up a crucial word, phrase, or concept and advance it in stair-step fashion.
4)chiastic or introverted (the logical units are developed in an A...B...B'...A' pattern.
....some psalms [are] acrostic or alphabetical in arrangement...
most scholars agree that it was written by David, Ezra, or Daniel.
Where there concubines that had sons by king david?
Yes in those days it was common for kings to have concubines, David had a few but Solomon had it in hundreds.
On of the popular facts about King David, is his sin that caused a crack in his character. He slept with Bathsheba, a married woman, who he saw on the rooftops. His son by Bathsheba fell ill as the prophet Nathan had told him it would. This was the punishment for his sin. He also killed the husband to Bathsheba because he refused to sleep at home with his wife when he was called from war because he thought it unfair to his fellow soldiers.
When did King Saul King David and King Solomon live?
Kings Saul, David, and Solomon lived around 1,000 b.c. Archaeologists have found King Saul's house but are not sure where kings David and Solomon lived.
What kinds of pets did king Solomon have?
As far as I know, pets as such are not mentioned. His horses (1 Kings 5:6) were kept in case of war; and other animals such as monkeys and parrots were bought (1 Kings 10:22) and sold. Some of these may have been kept as pets, but there is no explicit mention of it.
King David's sin was due to fleshly weakness. (2 Samuel 11:2-24; 12:1-14) Although David sometimes fell short because of fleshly weakness, as a rule he relied on Jehovah's strength, not on his own.
Is the poetry book 'Cool Salsa' written only in Spanish?
no, in the book it is written in spanish and english! :)
Where did King David bring the Ark of Covenant?
David brought the Ark of the Covenant to Mt Zion in Jerusalem from the house of Abinadab in Gibeah. It was placed in a temporary tabernacle.
How old is King David II of Scotland?
King David II of Scotland was born on March 5, 1324 and died on February 22, 1371. King David II of Scotland would have been 46 years old at the time of death or 691 years old today.
Who was the Bibical King David?
king David never existed there is NO proof what so ever anywhere on Earth.
Answer:
The 2nd King of Israel, circa 1010-970 BC.
Note: the argument by deconstructionist and other Bible critics that King David never existed was silenced forever in 1993 with the discovery of the Tel Dan stele. The argument shifted then from dismissing the biblical record of David as King over both Israel and Judah, to now saying he was nothing more than a local tribal leader of no real significance, and that the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah didn't exist as states until centuries later. The current findings at Khirbet Qelyafa, aka the Elah Fortress, is proving this current argument of the latter statehoods of Judah and Israel as mere rubbish.
How many trophies does David collect to win the hand of King Sauls daughter?
He was told to collect one hundred, but he went ahead and collected two hundred (see 1 Samuel ch.18 for further detail).
What was the complexion of King Solomon?
If Solomon was a real, historic person, he would have been Semitic and would therefore have had a dark complexion, like modern Arabs and Sephardic Jews.
Is Psalm 100 one of the 49 anonymous Psalms?
Yes and no. Yes, no name is given. And no, because tradition states that this Psalm (and certain others) was originally spoken by Moses (Rashi commentary, on Psalm 90:1, referring also to Psalm 100).
What happpened to Chileab or Daniel David's son?
With the slaying of the firstborn, Amnon, Chileab could feel in line for the kingship after David, but no mention is made of a usurpation, suggesting either that he respected the God-given appointment of Solomon or that he died before his father.
