Biblical figure
Who was David?
King of Israel, poet, warrior, and the central royal figure of the Old Testament.
First appears in Ruth 4:17 · 28 books · 185 chapters
Overview
David gathers many of the Bible’s strongest motifs into one life: obscurity and election, courage and statecraft, worship and violence, poetry and repentance, promise and ruin. His story is never cleanly heroic, which is one reason it has stayed so alive in art, preaching, and moral reflection.
He matters historically because the Davidic line becomes one of the great organizing threads of the biblical imagination. He matters spiritually because his psalms, failures, griefs, and repentances keep giving later readers a language for devotion that is honest rather than polished.
Key passages
Appears in
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