KING DAVID

HIS KINGDOM

The story of David’s rise, woven into the story of Saul, finds fulfillment in the story of his kinship in 2 Samuel. It is also a profound depiction of the love-hate relationship without the inadequacy of psychological detail–without the insufficiency of moralizing reflection. His kingdom is puzzled with lust and murder; this kingdom is advanced by deceit and injustice. The David who could not control his own passions cannot control the passions of his sons.



Here is a king, had twelve wives, and who came to grieving Bathsheba to comfort her on the death of the child born of their adultery. The house of this kingdom is torn–even as his son Asalomm murder the other son, and Tamar's purity is torn from her. So the integrity and dignity of this kingdom is torn: raped, defiled, dishonored. Then the consolidation of the kingdom of David. In the center of the story of the king’s private life and it’s become the loss and regaining of the throne. What a tragic failure is this kingdom; what a dishonorable kingdom is his house, but it survived, through out, and his last son, Solomon became King.