KNOWING YOUR BIBLE
September 4, 2022: Dear Friends, The purpose of this blog is to provide teaching information that will help in learning and understanding the Bible. The current series of blogs is focusing on important people and events that are written about in the Bible. Go to the August 7th blog and progress through to the August 28 blog to review and contemplate on people and events that have been written about.
Often when reading and studying the Bible, the specific name of a person or an event might be written about in later books written several hundred years after the person or event had been written about originally in the earlier books. Knowing where to find the original place in the Bible where the person or event was written about will provide a broader knowledge and understanding of the person or event being discussed in a latter book of the Bible.
Today’s focus will be on an important person in the Bible, King David, the second king to reign in Isarel after Isarel became a country. King David lived from 1040 BCE to 970 BCE. Information written on his life can be found in the history books of the Old Testament, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings and 1st Chronicles. Some of the prose written on David’s life has been rewritten in one or more of the above history books.
Specific Bible verses on King David’s life written in the history books will be listed below. Scan through long passages of the scriptures listed, focusing on important and interesting happenings and events as discerned through studying the life of King David. Most Bibles have short wordings at the top of each page, to give the reader information on what is written on the page. This can be helpful to know when scanning for important information to be read in Bible study.
MAY YOUR BIBLE STUDY BE BLESSED THIS WEEK! Bible verses: 1st Samuel, chapter 16, verses 1-23 and chapters 2 through chapter 31 in 1st Samuel, and 2nd Samuel, chapter 1 through chapter 2 verse 12; 1st Kings, chapter 1 through chapter 2, verse 12. 1st Chronicles, chapter 10, verse 13 through chapter 29. King David is listed in the genealogy of Jesus Christ, written in Matthew, chapter 1, verses 1-17. King David has been credited with writing more than half of the 150 Psalms written in the book of Psalm. In most Bibles, the writer’s name of each Psalm is written below the listing of the chapter number. In this way identification of David as the writer of the Psalm can be found.