You say: What’s your thought on David’s thinking when he decided he just had to have Bathsheba? David obviously knew it was wrong to commit adultery with his Uriah’s wife, Psalm 51:1-3 shows this: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. [...]
Answers about David
1 Samuel 17:54: And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. Goliath’s armor would have been very valuable and useful. The Philistines had the upper hand over Israel, at that time in history, and they didn’t allow blacksmiths to operate in Israel. [...]
Secular history tells us that the son of Simon Maccabee, John Hyrcanus I, was both king and priest. Simon was murdered in 134 BCE by his son-in-law Ptolemy, and was succeeded as high priest and king by his son John Hyrcanus I. There are no other king/priest combinations recorded in the Bible. In the [...]
No, King David was not a priest. The priests were from the tribe of Levi. David was from Judah. When David sent for the ephod to inquire of the LORD, he asked Abiathar the high priest to bring it. Presumably the inquiry was through Abiathar, if the precedent of the instruction given to Joshua, the [...]
The future king of Israel is here named “David” reflecting God’s promise that an heir of David will rule over Israel (cf. Jer 33:17; Luke 1:32). The prophecy is not about David himself, but about his heir, the future king of Israel — that is Jesus.
Jesus or Jesus Christ is mentioned approximately 968 times. Christ (without Jesus) is mentioned an additional 286 times (approx). Making a total of approximately 1254 times Moses is mentioned 852 times. Abraham is mentioned 250 times and Abram 62 times making a total of 312 times. David is mentioned 1141 times. So Jesus/Jesus Christ/Christ occurs [...]
There are probably a few stories in the Bible that talks about lust. One well known example is from the life of David, when he lusted after Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah (the record is in 2 Samuel 11). At the end of 2 Samuel 11 the following comment is made about David’s actions: …the thing that [...]
The word is of uncertain meaning, but appears to refer to the kind of small bag that shepherds would carry with them, probably containing food and in this case also used for stones to throw. 1 Samuel 17:40 (NET) He took his staff in his hand, picked out five smooth stones from the stream, placed them [...]
The famous battle in which David killed Goliath took place in the Valley of Elah (1 Sam 17:4). Elah means terebinth, a tree commonly found in the area. The brook which runs through the valley is the Brook of Elah. It is a seasonal creek that runs dry for much of the year. The creek [...]
The word “impute” means “count” or “take account of”. So, “blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin” (ESV). Paul here is using Old Testament examples to explanation how we can appear before righteous before God. He cites the example of Abraham, who “believed God and it was counted to [...]
