David Ives

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…

The High Cost of Sin David was a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22), and one of the most talented characters of the Old Testament. He was not only a king, he was a poet, a musician, a mighty warrior and humble. David was brave enough to kill a lion and a bear, and noble enough that he refused to kill Saul, for he was God’s anointed. (I Samuel 26:23) David was a good man; he was one of God’s favorites; yet, he fell into deep sin and the Bible doesn’t hide the scars on him. “It happened in…

For many ages, people have turned to David and Goliath for inspiration. While people have told the story for ages, it is often misinterpreted. To readers, Goliath is a formidable foe, with superior power to David, a small shepherd’s boy. Goliath expected a warrior to engage him in close combat, where size was an advantage. Gladwell’s novel, David and Goliath, examines the struggles of ordinary people. Gladwell finds that sometimes advantage can lead to failure, and disadvantage can lead to…

Gladwell’s Ted Talks video, he explains what the story of David and Goliath means to him. The story of David and Goliath is about, David, a young shepherded boy who volunteers to fight Goliath, a giant, in order to end the standstill between the Israelites and the Philistines. Saul, the king of Israel, has no choice but to let the young shepherded fight the giant, because none of the other warriors were brave enough to fight Goliath. When David walks down to Goliath, Goliath becomes very annoyed…

The author of Ezra is most likely himself, an educated scribe who came out of Babylonia to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Nehemiah, a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes I of Persia, also wrote most of the book called by his name. He came to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls. The events in Ezra happened from 538 to 457 B.C., with about a sixty year gap in the middle (during which Esther takes place). From 444 to 425 B.C., Nehemiah worked to rebuild the walls and realign the hearts of the people of…

overtreated David considering that his feet began to look like a pin cushion. This shows overtreatment since the doctors kept pricking his feet without checking what they were doing to him. Secondly, he wasn’t really being treated as a human and was treated more as a test subject. This can be seen since the doctors encouraged the mom to have the baby but then used him as test subject considering the overtreatment that occurred. Thirdly, the doctors were too confident when trying to treat David.…