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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Hebron was King David's political and military power base, but he saw greater potential for national unity in a Jerusalem-based regime.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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A will sing in the city's squares and parks, special museum exhibitions devoted to King David's era will be matched with special tours of unique archeological sites while sport lovers will enjoy a series of major tournaments.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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By King David's time, the power of the Church together with the power of the Crown, meant an opportunity to revive the religious life in this part of his kingdom as well as a chance to display his own wealth, piety and status.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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It is generally understood that the house of Judah was invaded by the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar; that the Jews were taken captive to Babylon; that they ceased from being a kingdom; that there no longer existed a ruler of David's dynasty on the throne over the Kingdom of Judah.
All succeeding kings of David's dynasty were of the House of David, tribe of Judah.
He succeeded in defending his own right as heir apparent against David's abortive proposal to commute his remaining ransom payments to the English by making a son of King Edward III of England heir to the Scottish throne.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The disciples remembered king David's words in Psalm 69:9, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
King David was thirty years old when the elders of Judah called him to the City of Hebron, gave him their allegiance, and publicly anointed him King.
King David used this symbolism to proclaim his son, Solomon, to be the rightful heir to the throne.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Queen Elizabeth on David's Throne In view of the linking together of biblical history, prophecy, and Irish history, can anyone deny that this Hebrew princess was the daughter of King Zedekiah of Judah and therefore heir to the throne of David?
And he was the one that God has sent to David the prophet and anointed him king over the sons of Israel after Saul.
David's predecessor, King Saul, in disobedience to the Word of the Lord, kept alive the best of the cattle when God had told him to destroy them all utterly.
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