DAVID. One of the greatest heroes of ancient history was David, a hapless shepherd male child who killed the elephantine Goliath. Harmonizing to the Biblical narrative of his life, which is told in item in the Old Testament, David was born about 3,000 old ages ago.
David was the youngest boy of Jesse, a adult male of Bethlehem. While a shepherd, he learned to play the harp and to hurtle rocks from a catapulting with deathly truth to protect the flocks.
Saul, at that clip male monarch of Israel, called for music to comfort his troubled spirit. David was so fine-looking and his music on the harp so delighting that Saul made him his armour carrier and instrumentalist.
Then David met Goliath. This Philistine had challenged Saul for 40 yearss to direct out a adult male to contend him. No 1 had responded, for Goliath stood more than nine pess tall. He brandished a lance that had a 20-pound caput of Fe and a shaft “like a weaver’s beam.” David wore no armour and carried merely a catapulting hidden in his manus and five smooth rocks in a shepherd’s bag at his side.
As Goliath came into scope, David reached into his bag, put a rock in his sling, and allow travel with all his might. The rock pierced Goliath’s brow, and he fell dead. David so cut off the elephantine’s caput as a present to Saul. The Philistines fled in panic. David’s heroic title aroused Saul’s green-eyed monster.
At that clip, David became a really good friend of the king’s boy Jonathan. Jonathan gave the low shepherd boy his royal garments, his blade, and his bow. David, now a fully fledged warrior, fought so courageously against the Philistines that harmonizing to the Bible the adult females of Israel said, “Saul hath slain his 1000s, and David his 10 thousands.”
Fearing that the people would do David male monarch, Saul tried to kill him. He even tried to kill his ain boy Jonathan for screening David. Jonathan, nevertheless, helped David to get away. Saul’s ground forces followed and David had to conceal. Twice David could hold killed Saul, but he would non prehend the throne by slaying.
In the conflict of Gilboa both Saul and Jonathan were killed. With Saul gone, David ruled at Hebron as male monarch of Judah for about eight old ages. When the male monarch of Israel was murdered, the Hebrewss made David their male monarch in about 1000 BC.
David ruled Judah and Israel as a united state until he died 33 old ages subsequently. He moved from Hebron to Jerusalem, which his nephew Joab had captured for him. Joab besides conquered Israel’s neighbours until the state’s power reached into Syria.
Old ages of bloodshed and famine marked David’s reign. The lese majesty and decease of his favourite boy, Absalom, filled the male monarch with heartache. David’s worst offense was his treachery of his faithful captain Uriah, so that he might get married Uriah’s married woman, Bathsheba.
