David Card

statement said this is David’s Psalm as he is running from his son Absalom. I can’t imagine the pain and hurt David must be feeling. His own son is trying to find him and take over his kingdom and even kill him. I’m sure God has similar feelings when we his children run from him and try to place ourselves in a position that is “higher” than the Lord Almighty. It’s a hard prayer for David to ask the LORD to take care of the wickedness (his on son) that is seeking after him. I’m not looking…

Aargau of the Royal Household of the Siganids, controlled several trade lines, supplying Annelida its grain. Before ending their alliance, King David Callaghan and King Phillip Wylie beheaded King Aargau-during the Celestial Festival. The two Kings then divided his vast territories with King Phillip renaming the portion he received-Rosemore, while King David laid…

great kings, Oedipus and the biblical character David both have similarities in their sudden rise to success as kings in their young age and their degradation at the end of their reign as prominent monarchs. These powerful kings descended into sin, immorality, and lack of perception to distinguish their false self-righteousness. King Oedipus is the victim of a cruel sinful fate, which is inevitable for him to get away from as well as the great King David of ancient Israel, a leader that…

Written in the midst of World War I to mirror the biblical tale of David and Goliath, “Goliath and David” by Robert Graves conveys the theme that no matter how much one desires something, it is often out of one’s control. For example, Graves writes, “But… the historian of that fight/ Had not the heart to tell it right,” to preface the unconventional and dark plot to come (lines 11-12). The syntax and word choice from this part of the poem force the reader to pause and predict what will happen in…

King Manasseh in 2 Chronicles 33:1-20 is a story of repentance. Manasseh ruled for 55 long years and he started his reign at twelve years old. The initial ten years of his rule was conceivably a cogency with his father, Hezekiah. Though Manasseh had the longest tenure as king of Judah, the bible reflects on Manasseh and his devotion. He is both a bad guy and a good guy but also a man of repentance. It is clear that Manasseh headed people of Judah far from love of the LORD (2 Chronicles 33:9).…

The psalm readily divides into four parts of six verses each (Walvoord 891). In the first part, David expresses God’s omniscient nature (Ps. 139:1-6). Rather than present a rigid statement of God’s knowledge, David speaks of it in adoration (Kidner 500). David is happy to confess that God has searched him and does know him. The perfect verb tense, expressing past action with continuing results, shows that God always intimately knows the hearts and minds of all people (Keil 5: 809). Yet, the…

Throughout First and Second Samuel, as well as First and Second Kings, the fall of the people of Israel is consistently foreshadowed. In the seventeenth chapter of Second Kings, the anticipated collapse of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) is described. The religious reasons that are given for the fall of the Northern Kingdom can all be founded on the Israelites’ disobedience of Yahweh. The people had “sinned against the Lord their God” by “[worshipping] other gods and [walking] in the customs of…

Struck by death: Goliath and David in masterpieces by Caravaggio and Nicholas Poussin The biblical story of David and Goliath is told in 1 Samuel 17. The background for the well-known battle was the war between Philistines and Israelites. Goliath, a gigantic champion on the side of Philistines, was ready to fight one-on-one a warrior from the Israelites camp. ‘Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not…

This essay focuses on the first three kings of Israel and why Israel wanted a king. The other questions it will address is why was Saul chosen and later rejected, what made David a better king than Saul, and what happened during Solomon’s rain that led to the division of Israel after his death. First is why did Israel feel they needed a king. Up until this time they had the prophets and the Judges that God had raised up to lead and protect them. The first reason Israel wanted a king is found…

From the reading in the book of first Samuel, chapter 8 describes a time after Samuel retires and passes on the responsibilities to his two sons of overseeing Israel; however, they are corrupt in their ways and so the elders of Israel gather and request to have a king. Samuel brings their request before God who declares that they are merely doing as their ancestors have done in the past and rejecting God’s dominion over them. God then has Samuel explain what life will be like if they have a king…