What did you find amazing about King David?

Question

(This is a question from my wife.)

Answer 1

David's heart. As a boy, he sang to God as he watched his father's sheep. As a king, he cried out to God, he danced before God, he wrote poetry inspired by God. He was not perfect, but he had the Spirit of God in his heart.

Answer 2

What really blows me away is David lusted after a woman, got her pregnant and ordered her husband home so he could pass the baby off as the husbands. When that didn't work due to the husband's loyalty to David, he ordered the man to go to the front lines of the war so he would be killed off. Then David took the widow for his wife and you know what...God forgave him. Makes me incredibly happy that God used imperfect people in scripture because if they had been perfect then we would probably all give up without any hope. Even though this couple's first child died their second child was the wisest, King Solomon. Now what I find amazing is not David's fall from grace but God's forgiveness . You ought to see how David died. Interesting stuff. Mmm

Answer 3

Well Unc,David could have taken Saul's life from him many times but always honored him as King.All the times David ran for his life and had never done anything but love Saul and Saul wanting David dead from jealousy.It showed me how to honor those in authority even if they are wrong and watch God take care of the situation.The bible says David was a man after God's own heart,and that is what I have prayed to have a heart pure like David,even when he sinned and had one of his soldiers killed to have his wife he still knew God would be God and was his help.

Answer 4

The fact that his Faith was so great, and he was so in touch with God, yet he STILL was capable of adultery and murder.

We should be very cautious before we proclaim that WE would or wouldn't do "thus and so" as a Christian! If we give into temptation, we are capable of just about ANYTHING, the same as anyone else! We need to stick tight to Jesus, and by His Grace,we'll get HOME safely!!

Answer 5

His respect for King Saul.
Even though King Saul was Jealous and tried alot to Kill David, David still had Respect for him as a Man of GOD.
When David became King David, his Ability to know that GOD still Loved him even when he Blew-It.
Ditto...............

Answer 6

That Bathsheba was his head councelor's granddaughter.
That David murdered his head councelor's grandson-in-law.
And that Christ came from that mistake.

Found that out the last message I heard!

Answer 7

from a simple boy he was crowned a great and wise king who, even though had sinned against God (and reproved by phrothet nathan) repented and found favor in God's eyes still. a lot of trials and tests came his way and he yet strived to please God and not letting hid great power rule his head.

Answer 8

When he was rebuked by Nathan, the prophet, he didn't call Nathan judgemental like I think most people do when confronted with a sin of theirs. Instead, he repented.

Answer 9

Though 'Abdu'l-Bahá indicates that the Jewish histories provide a less complete treatment of the contact between the Greek philosophers and the Jewish sages than the "eastern histories", it is interesting to observe references to Socrates in two entries in the Encyclopaedia Judaica:

In the Aggadah, Socrates was said to have been the disciple of Ahithophel, the adviser to King David (Moses Isserles, Torat ha-Olah 1:11, quoting an old source).

The Jewish Hellenistic philosopher, Aristobulus of Paneas, who lived in the first half of the second century B.C.E., fragments of whose writings are preserved in books and manuscripts, is reported to have claimed that "portions of the Pentateuch had been rendered into Greek before it was translated in its entirety ... and that these portions reached Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato and formed the basis of their philosophical teachings. In developing their philosophical systems these Greek philosophers were influenced by the biblical account of creation."

Aristobulus supported his contention that the source of Greek philosophy lies in the Bible by citing in his work many passages from ancient Greek literature which, to his mind, reflect biblical ideas. There are indications that these citations were taken from a collection of quotations which was used as a means for propagating the Jewish religion in the Hellenistic world.

Other sources indicate that as early as the third century B.C.E., Jewish thinkers made use of the intellectual strategies provided by Hellenistic philosophy to explain and defend the foundations of belief in one God. A well-known model for the reasoned defence of belief and practice was Socrates' address before the Athenian court in 399 B.C.E., which is preserved in Plato's Apology.

Philo Judaeus (c. 20 B.C.E. - 50 C.E.), a Jewish thinker and author of an elaborate synthesis of Jewish religious thought and Greek philosophy, put Moses forward as the teacher of Pythagoras and of all Greek philosophers and law-givers. Likewise, Josephus (first century of the C.E.) claimed that the Greek philosophers were among the first imitators of Mosaic law,7 and Maimonides (1135-1204 C.E.) expressed the view that "Greek Philosophy was a derivative from Hebraic inspiration".8 2.22

(The Universal House of Justice, 1995 Oct 22, Compilation on Socrates)

" David, in his Psalms, had predicted: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory." "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence." Amos had, likewise, foretold His coming: "The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither."

(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 183)


Allah'u'abha (God is all-glorious)

Answer 10

He was crowned king by merit of a single count of homicide (in bizarre circumstances)