Within the limits imposed it is impossible to give more than a bare outline of the events of his life and a brief estimate of his character and his significance in the history of the chosen people, as king, psalmist, prophet, and type of the Messias. Recent writers have been induced by the Assyrian inscriptions to date his reign from 30 to 50 years later. According to the usual chronology, David was born in 1085 and reigned from 1055 to 1015 B.C. Our knowledge of David's life and character is derived exclusively from the pages of Sacred Scripture, viz., 1 Samuel 16 1 Kings 2 1 Chronicles 2, 3, 10-29 Ruth 4:18-22, and the titles of many Psalms. 1 Chronicles 2:13), a small proprietor, of the tribe of Juda, dwelling at Bethlehem, where David was born. He was the youngest of the eight sons of Isai, or Jesse ( 1 Samuel 16:8 cf.
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