Old Testament
David
Ten studies across 1 Samuel 16 to 1 Kings 2: the shepherd anointed while his father forgets to call him in, Goliath, the wilderness years, the covenant that promises a throne forever, Bathsheba and the sword that never leaves his house, and the reason Scripture still calls him a man after God's own heart — not moral perfection, but what he did the moment he was named.
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Contents
- 01
Anointed in Secret
1 Samuel 16The LORD looketh on the heart — a shepherd boy anointed while his father forgets to call him in
- 02
Goliath
1 Samuel 17The battle is the LORD's — training nobody watching would have recognized as training
- 03
Saul's Jealousy and the Wilderness Years
1 Samuel 24 · 1 Samuel 26Twice he could have killed the man hunting him, and twice he refused
- 04
King Over Judah, Then All Israel
2 Samuel 2 · 2 Samuel 5The public promise finally closes, years after the private anointing
- 05
The Ark, the Covenant, and the House He Wasn't Allowed to Build
2 Samuel 6 · 2 Samuel 7David wanted to build God a house; God tells him instead He will build David one
- 06
Bathsheba
2 Samuel 11 · Psalm 51Thou art the man — and what David does next is the reason his story survives
- 07
Absalom and the Long Unraveling
2 Samuel 15 · 2 Samuel 18The sword Nathan promised didn't come from outside the family — it came from inside it
- 08
Old Age and the Final Charge
1 Kings 1 · 1 Kings 2One more near-coup, and the woman from David's worst sin secures the succession
- 09
A Man After God's Own Heart
1 Samuel 15The difference between the king God rejected and the king God kept wasn't the absence of sin
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Where the New Testament Goes With Him
Acts 2 · Revelation 22Son of David — the ancestor and the source, in one person