David was always glorified in my experience of reading the Bible and hearing about him in church, but whether or not he deserved it is another question. I knew the story of how he married Bathsheba in the back of my head (perhaps mostly the Veggie Tales version) but I didn’t realize just how far David went and still maintained his popularity and kingship. He had multiple wives, killed multiple people, and committed adultery, but he took responsibility for it. This is a recurring theme in the Bible in a literary sense, because the main message of Jesus is to take ownership of sin and repent. The benefits of doing so are shown through David, as he won the spot of being in the holy bloodline and being a man after God’s own heart, as he is often called in Christianity. All sides of David’s life are important when understanding the themes of the Bible.
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