David, the sweet psalmist of Israel, anointed as an obscure
shepherd boy to be the future ruler of Israel, became the great
warrior king who ushered in the golden era of Israel’s history.
The King Called David03036_000_026 David, one of the most
complex and tragic heroes of all of Israelite history, lived
approximately ten centuries before Christ. Yet the shadow of
influence he cast across the pages of the past extended even
beyond the lifetime of Jesus—in some ways it is still vaguely
apparent in our own day. Matthew paid tribute to Christ by
calling him “the son of David.” (Matt. 1:1.) Bethlehem, the
birthplace of the Master, was called by the angels who attended
his birth “the city of David.” (Luke 2:11.) And the angel
Gabriel, in announcing the birth of the Messiah to Mary, stated
that her Son “shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his
father David.” (Luke 1:32.) David was without question one of
the most influential kings Israel eve