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Please tell another story, another miracle. But the day was getting long in the tooth; she had a million things to do. No miracles today. Just the plain old Chief.
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In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. The scene is set when Saul, Israel's first king, is rejected by God for disobedience. God sends the prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint a successor at God's direction. When David his youngest son appears, God tells Samuel to anoint him.

How King David ascended to the throne of Israel

David's qualities "after the Lord's own heart" are perhaps best displayed in the famous contest with Goliath. The people of Israel are confronted by their enemies, the Philistines, and are terrified of their champion, Goliath.


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Goliath is huge and carries overwhelming military technology. He is the ancient equivalent of the Terminator and calls for a single combat to decide the battle. David, still a shepherd, is bringing provisions for his brothers in the Israelite army. He is dismayed by Israel's fear of Goliath. King Saul hears of David's attitude and sends for him. When David offers to fight in single combat, Saul dismisses the idea as a joke. But, as a shepherd, David has learned to trust God in the face of terrifying opposition.

David stuns Goliath with a stone from his sling, and when Goliath falls to the ground David makes his triumph complete by cutting off Goliath's head with Goliath's own sword. This is the story of a young person who trusts God against all the odds, and to whom God gives success. The next phase in David's life is far from straightforward.

Saul takes David to court, and sends him out on military campaigns. Saul becomes envious of David and becomes suspicious that David might want to usurp him. This is not helped by the fact that Saul's son and heir, Jonathan, has become deeply attached to David, and Saul's daughter Michal loves him. Saul's suspicions quickly become paranoia, and David has to flee for his life and live rough. After a while David decides that there is little point in constantly being on the run from Saul, and he moves to the territory of Israel's enemies, the Philistines.

Here he agrees to serve as a mercenary, in return for a whole town for himself and his men to live in. Then the Philistines go to war against Israel. David is expected to come with them and fight Israelites on their behalf, and is in no position to refuse. Yet some of the Philistine generals become suspicious of David; perhaps he might change sides in mid-battle.

At their insistence David is dismissed from the Philistine army - providentially now he is spared from shedding Israelite blood. He is not there when the Philistines defeat Israel and Saul and Jonathan die. David nobly and movingly laments Saul and Jonathan, leaves the Philistines, and returns to his home territory of Judah where he is made king.

It seems that David has 'made it' - with as much success, prosperity, and peace not to mention several wives and numerous children as anyone in the ancient world could ever hope for. Yet at this point David becomes complacent. Living "after the Lord's own heart" ceases to be his priority and a terrible unraveling of his achievement sets in. The following chapters tell of David's household falling apart in the pattern of sex and murder that he himself has initiated.

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David the great king finally appears as a rather pathetic old man, shivering uncontrollably in bed, while his court and family manoeuvre and jockey for position around the dying king. A power struggle between supporters of two of David's sons, half-brothers to each other, Adonijah and Solomon, ends with Solomon on the throne and some rather dismal settling of scores 1 Kings The political wheelings and dealings have a hardy perennial feel to them. The legendary battle between the overgrown Philistine warrior Goliath and the humble shepherd boy David is an archetype which has resonance well beyond the Old Testament account.

Whenever a lower division football club thwarts a premier squad in a giant-slaying encounter it is celebrated as a 'David and Goliath' event. The defiant courage of the underdog appeals to our deep-seated emotional need to witness the powerless turning the tables, for once, on the powerful. But for Christians and Jews the story of David is far more than an implausible folk-legend.

The Old Testament recounts not only David's heroic deeds as a young boy but chronicles his whole eventful life as the first King of Israel to really unite the nation. After Jesus, his is the most complete biography in the Bible and is packed with schismic political events, epic battles and great personal drama. Samuel 1 and 2 document David's testing time on the run from the mentally unhinged King Saul, his pitched battles with the heathen Philistines, his triumphant taking of Jerusalem as his capital, the adulterous affair with Bathsheba and the rebellion of his son Absalom.

And if that wasn't enough, Christians believe that years later, as prophesised, Jesus was born into the house of David. David is celebrated as a warrior, prophet, musician and lover; the ultimate Renaissance man if you like.


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He is credited with writing many of the Old Testament Psalms, composed no doubt on his famous lyre on which he was said to be a virtuoso. His brilliant strategic mind enabled the Israelite army to crush the 'barbaric' Philistines on numerous occasions. The canny leader sent a crack squad of his troops through the ancient water systems underneath the hill-top fortress town of Jerusalem. In a heroic Trojan-horse style attack his forces took the strategically important position and made it his capital. From here he united the 12 tribally disparate regions in Judea and Israel to form a united nation of Israel.

Take Caligula, for example. The things we read about Caligula all come from writers after his time who had an agenda to discredit him. He seemed to do a pretty bang-up job, actually. But after his time, when David had to be glorified, suddenly Saul is described as doing all these insane things. History has shown pretty firmly that not-so-great people can make really compelling and successful leaders. David did things that have great resonance today, in terms of changing and reshaping the world, particularly in Judeo-Christian circles.

Here the Thomas Jefferson parallel is an excellent one.

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Our view of his character changed. Why should you come out to engage in battle? Choose one of your men and let him come down against me. If he overcomes me in combat and kills me, we will become your slaves; but if I best him and kill him, you shall be our slaves and serve us.

The sight of the fierce giant, six cubits and a span about 10 feet 5 tall, a towering figure on the hill, clad in armour, iron and brass from head to foot, filled the Jews with great terror. There was not a single man in the Israelite camp who dared accept the challenge. Day after day, for 40 days, this mighty giant appeared on the hill to repeat his challenge, morning and evening. Then, young David, filled with courage, approached the giant with just a staff, a slingshot and five stones. He proceeded to cut off his head and presented it to King Saul.

The Philistines witnessing this event fled in fear. And David was a national hero. This bond between the two proved itself, even in the most difficult of times. Later on, King Saul began to fear that David wanted his throne and sought to kill him. King Saul then selected David to be a warrior in his army.

The Story of King David in the Bible

This led to a war between the two men. It started when David was playing the harp for the king, and a cloud of fear and anger suddenly fell upon the king.

David’s Early Life

King Saul took hold of a spear and threw it at David. By Divine intervention, David managed to escape. David fled south to the mountains of Judah, his home. He needed food and weapons. He obtained these from the city of Nob.