Lux Domini

Biblical figure

Who was David?

King of Israel, poet, warrior, and the central royal figure of the Old Testament.

First appears in Ruth 4:17 · 28 books · 185 chapters

Overview

David gathers many of the Bible’s strongest motifs into one life: obscurity and election, courage and statecraft, worship and violence, poetry and repentance, promise and ruin. His story is never cleanly heroic, which is one reason it has stayed so alive in art, preaching, and moral reflection.

He matters historically because the Davidic line becomes one of the great organizing threads of the biblical imagination. He matters spiritually because his psalms, failures, griefs, and repentances keep giving later readers a language for devotion that is honest rather than polished.

Known for

  • defeating Goliath and rising during Saul’s decline
  • uniting the kingdom and making Jerusalem the royal center
  • receiving the covenant promise tied to his house and throne

Themes

kingshiprepentanceworshipcovenant

Related figures

Saul

the king David succeeds

Solomon

son and royal successor

Nathan

prophet who confronts David

Abraham

earlier covenant figure whose promise-history leads forward

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Key passages

Appears in

1 Samuel

15 chapters · 225 verse mentions

2 Samuel

23 chapters · 214 verse mentions

1 Chronicles

26 chapters · 153 verse mentions

1 Kings

14 chapters · 71 verse mentions

2 Chronicles

26 chapters · 65 verse mentions

2 Kings

11 chapters · 15 verse mentions

Matthew

7 chapters · 15 verse mentions

Jeremiah

8 chapters · 14 verse mentions

Psalms

7 chapters · 12 verse mentions

Luke

6 chapters · 11 verse mentions

Acts

6 chapters · 10 verse mentions

Isaiah

7 chapters · 9 verse mentions

Nehemiah

2 chapters · 7 verse mentions

Mark

4 chapters · 7 verse mentions

Zechariah

2 chapters · 5 verse mentions

Ezekiel

2 chapters · 4 verse mentions

Ezra

2 chapters · 3 verse mentions

Romans

3 chapters · 3 verse mentions

Revelation

3 chapters · 3 verse mentions

Ruth

1 chapter · 2 verse mentions

Amos

2 chapters · 2 verse mentions

Hebrews

2 chapters · 2 verse mentions

Proverbs

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Ecclesiastes

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Song of Solomon

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

Hosea

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

John

1 chapter · 1 verse mention

2 Timothy

1 chapter · 1 verse mention