Key Events In David’s Life
EVENTS | SCRIPTURE PASSAGES | RELATED PSALM |
The Lord choses David to be king | 1 Sam 16.1-13 | Ps 78 |
David plays the harp for king Saul | 1 Sam 16.14-23 | |
David kills Goliath | 1 Sam 17.1-54 | |
Saul becomes jealous of David | 1 Sam 18.6-30 | |
David’s marriage to Michal | 1 Sam 18.20-28; 19.9-17; 2 Sam 6.20-23 | Ps 59 |
David’s friendship with Jonathan | 1 Sam 18.1-4; 20.1-42; 23.14-18; 2 Sam 1.1-27 | Ps 54;63 |
David meets and marries Abigail | 1 Sam 25.1-44 | |
David becomes king of Judah | 2 Sam 2.1-7 | |
David becomes king of Israel | 2 Sam 5.1-5; 1 Chr 11.1-3 | |
David captures Jerusalem | 2 Sam 5.6-12; 1 Chr 11.4-9; 14.1-2 | |
David brings the sacred chest to Jerusalem | 2 Sam 6.1-19; 1 Chr 13.1-14; 15.1—16.43 | |
David and Bathsheba | 2 Sam 11.1--12.25 | Ps 51 |
Solomon is born | 2 Sam 12.24,25 | |
Absalom rebels against his father David | 2 Sam 15.1-12 | Ps 3 |
Absalom dies and David mourns | 2 Sam 18.7--19.8 | |
David counts the people | 2 Sam 24.1-25 | |
David gives instructions to his son Solomon | 1 Kgs 2.1-9 | |
David dies | 1 Kgs 2.10-12 |
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