King David

1 Chronicle 22:14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

If this are tithing, to arrive at King David's worth, then just multiply it by 10 and multiply it by present price of gold and silver to estimate present value.

There is no mention of Jesus Christ playing any instrument , in the scriptures . However this is no reflection on Christianity as we see it today ...

Psalm 149 :1Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

The Bible does not say exactly when Bathsheba was born, but an accurate estimate [that's an oxymoron if ever there was one!] can be made. David was born 1061BC and died 971BC. These dates are known and definite dates because:-

(1). The date of the completion of the Temple by Solomon in 974BC has been positively dated and cross-correlated by scholars because it is also mentioned in the records of contemporary civilizations;

(2). It is known that this was in the fourth year of Solomon's reign ie that Solomon became king in 970BC:-

1Ki 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

(3). His father David died very soon after Solomon became king (ie 970BC).

(4). According to Josephus, David was 70 when he died, which means he was born in 1040BC, and he ruled from Jerusalem for 33 years, (and also died there) which means he began ruling from Jerusalem in 1003BC.

1Ki 2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

(5). David was in Jerusalem when he saw Bathsheba :-

2Sa 11:2-3 KJV And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. [v.3] And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not thisBathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

(6). David committed adultery with Bathsheba but she became pregnant, so he had her husband (Uriah the Hittite) killed, and Nathan the prophet confronted David:-

2Sa 12:9-10 KJV Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. [v.10] Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

(7). Nathan told him their child (ie not a baby) would die:-

2Sa 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

(v.18) And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

(8). Assuming that this happened just after David began ruling from Jerusalem means the earliest possible date for would be 1002BC .

(9). The latest possible date for this would be one or two years before Solomon was born:-

2Sa 12:22, 24 KJV And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? ... [v.24] And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

(10). When Solomon became king, David told him to behave "like a man", implying he wasn't (he could have been a teenager):-

1Ki 2:1-2 MKJV And the days of David drew near for him to die. And he charged Solomon his son, saying, [v. 2] I go the way of all the earth. And you be strong and show yourself a man.

(11). Assuming he was 14 and adding a year for his mother's pregnancy would make the latest possible date for his conception 986BC.

(13). This puts the year of David's and Bathsheba's adultery somewhere in a range between 1002BC and 986BC, (but with it more likely to be later than earlier.)

(14).Assuming Bathsheba was 25, this would make her born between 1027BC and 1013BC.

The Kingdom of Israel. Before King David, Saul had also ruled over all of the Israelites.See also the Related Links.

Link: More about King David

Link: More about King Saul
Link: More about the Kings

The House of David Inscription (also known as the "Tel Dan Inscription") was discovered in 1994 during excavations at the ancient city of Dan. It is considered by many to be the first reference to the "House of David" discovered outside the biblical text.

The Tel Dan Inscription has been dated to about 835 BCE, roughly 150 years after the supposed time of David, and appears to be part of a stele erected by King Hazael of Damascus. The fragment has been pieced together with some gaps filled in, and reads in part: "I killed Jehoram son of Ahab king of Israel, and I killed Ahaziahu son of Jehoram king of the House of David ..." So this is circumstantial evidence that David had once lived, or at least that the Judahites believed he had. The authenticity or interpretation of this limited extra-biblical evidence is still being challenged by some scholars.

There is no extra-biblical evidence to support the historicity of the legendary King Solomon.

God told David to take up five stones in his name. These stones are in our hands today and they represent prayer, fasting, confession, the bible, and the Eucharist.

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He was confident that he could "slay the giant", yet recognized the possibility that he might miss. He didn't want to carry too many stones, since that would have been difficult to manage in the course of battle, and he didn't want to be arrogant and select only one stone. I'm sure he figured that if he couldn't get the job done with 5 stones, he was in trouble anyway.

Jesus and His Jewish followers would disagree that the Bible is about YOU. For example, Jesus rebuked His own Jewish leaders, the Pharisees, who saw the Bible as a moral code book about their behavior. He said, "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life. " (John 5:30-40). He later said to they were "of their father the devil" (John 8:44). Jesus defined eternal life as "knowing the ONE TRUE GOD" (John 3:17). Those who desire to know God will believe in Jesus' authority and realize that the Bible is God's revelation of Himself through redemptive history climaxing in the birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. Those who want to find other uses and interpretations of the Bible (and there are many) are free to do so. And on the last day they will be among those to whom Christ says, "I never knew you, depart from me..." (Matthew 7:23). One can either know the one true God through Jesus Christ and the revealed Word about Him. Or one can believe the lie of the garden and live as though we are the center of our universe and interpret the Bible from a man-centered perspective. Personally, I think it wise to ground ones view of Scripture in the authority of Jesus as did His Jewish followers who wrote the New Testament with the person and work of Christ as central to their writings. Frankly, a Bible isn't need if one is simply looking for a moral code, good advice, Jewish history, a metaphysical or spiritual experience, a scholarly exercise, or any other man-centered purpose. There are plenty of other books and sources for these. But if the Bible is how God has revealed Himself to His covenant people through redemptive history, it is the way He provided to know the one TRUE God cognitively, to know the one TRUE God passionately, and to know the one TRUE God relationally through His Son, Jesus Christ. There are many choices of how to view the Bible. But, based on the words of Jesus, viewing David and Goliath as a foreshadowing of the work of Christ and an example of the enmity between the two seeds of Genesis 3:15 fits the theme of redemptive history. And making much of the number five seems like one of many possible diversions that come from reading too much into the text. I'd rather make much of Christ, who said Scripture is about Him.

According to the Bible, King David was he strongest king in all Israelite history. Not only did he finally capture the city of Jerusalem, which had held out against the Israelites for four centuries, but he drove back the Philistines and extended his empire far to the north and all the way to the Euphrates River.

Archaeologists and biblical scholars now see the real David as more likely a local tribal chieftain, and the extensive conquests as belonging to a brief period under Kings Omri and Ahab in the ninth century. Carol Meyers (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy) says that Saul, David, and Solomon all provided leadership above the kinship level, although whether all unequivocally qualify as kings of a national state is debated. She says that after more than a century and a half of archaeological excavation of Jerusalem, virtually no structural remains of the tenth century can be identified securely.

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