for the record, David did commit adultery and murder.
Yes, he did, but way into his age.
Solomon was 13 when he took the throne, so the sins committed happened 14 years prior to David’s death................
Which would make him the perfect Democrat.
Yeah but besides that? :)
David was also headstrong, and jealous. He also, as a boy, fit in Saul’s armor; Saul being head and shoulders above Israel (i.e. exceptionally tall).
Almost all of the heroes of the Bible were flawed (Jesus, and Mary excepted). They were human, and did human things. The message? Forgiveness and redemption.
And David repented of his sins and was forgiven by God. David was a man after God’s heart. God loved David. David got on his knees and told God he was sorry for his crimes. God forgave. God will do that for any person who does the same, regardless of the sin. And as Christ told those who brought the woman who was caught in adultery, yee who is without sin, cast the first stone!!
Is that because Bathsheba was not married due to the fact that all women divorced all soldiers going off to war so if the men were never to return or returned years later, the women could marry again? David had foolishly called on God to test him but then failed the test seeing Bathsheba from a window next door.
And if God thought David was too warlike then why did He send him to be champion and military leader to save the Jews time and again? And let Saul send him on apparent suicide missions in which David was still victorious? Warlike for a good reason. But his son Solomon was apparently just right for the new era of the Temple.
At the beginning saul was a brave and effective Warrior. David was his son-in-law legally by marriage. saul’s son Jonathan was David’s very best friend.
It could be said that David demonstrated on going love for saul and his family even after saul and his sons were dead.
It could also be said that the prophet Samuel still loved and prayed for saul all of his life.
Without king saul , David would have been unprepared. The key events that established David from the ziklag event on Were driven by Saul and his misadventures.
David sided with the enemies of Israel and God by joining the philistines. The loss of his closest friend and the death of saul grieved David beyond words and actions And the loss of David wives and the loss of his men’s families driven by the insanity of them aligning with the enemies of God are what brought David to repentance and made him fit to be king. Without saul there probably would have been no David as we know him.