King David Research Paper

When King Solomon’s heart was turned away from the living God to idol, and the Lord vowed to take away the kingdom of Israel away from him only living the tribe of Judah to Solomon’s offspring because of his father David (1 Kings 11:4-13). When Solomon died, the united kingdom of Israel was divided into two kingdoms under king Rehoboam’s reign, Solomon’s son. The tribe of Judah and Benjamin became the kingdom of Judah, while the other ten tribes of Israel, became the northern kingdom, and was governed by Jeroboam the son of Nebat who reigned over the ten tribes known as the house of Israel (1 kings 12:1-25).

Josiah was one of the best kings of Judah because he obeyed the Word of God and sought after the Lord, just like David did. The first thing that Josiah did was repair the Temple that Solomon had built. The workers of the temple were given money to do so, but were not held accountable for that which they were given because Josiah trusted that they were honest. Therefore, Josiah respected his people. This also shows that Josiah himself was honest, because the subjects under the kings would follow the king and act as they did. For example, kings like Ahab who worshipped Baal also had subjects who followed Baal. Another thing that justified Josiah was that when Hilkiah the high priest found the Book of the Law, and Josiah heard what was written

So, It has three days since news passed of the Declaration of Independence and I have been thinking about it since. It was and is still very shocking to hear that the colonies are actually coming through with breaking away from Britain. Here in Boston, King George III has taken away countless rights from us and forced soldiers into our homes. That is just plain wrong and I am more then willing to fight for my freedom in these situations. What do I even have to loose, I am as poor as a church mouse, I have only a few friends and my small family is so far away. How I see it, the people who wrote this Declaration of Independence just want the rights they should have had in the first place.

Desperate to escape the despotic government, many people from Judah turned to false gods and idolatry.6 Pleading to God for rescue from such an immoral, faithless place, Habakkuk learned that the situation of Judah would be rectified in time.7 God said that He had prepared a chastising rod and that Babylon would be the avenging instrument of the just Judeans.8 After the Babylonians expelled Jehoiakim from the throne, God emancipated the Judeans and relieved the heinous social situation. In the end, Habakkuk knew that the just Israelite would not perish from the calamities of the Babylonian attacks;9 he knew that righteousness and faith would prevail. Instead of rectifying the situation at once, the Chaldean empire took control and continued to treat the Judeans harshly. Furthermore, Habakkuk became angry and questioned God again. Nevertheless, he heeded to the previous words of God and kept his faith. Before humanity lost faithfulness, Habakkuk needed to spread this message throughout the empire to save the Judeans. Habakkuk had to extend the word of God to all oppressed people, so he wrote in a style the Israelites could grasp.

Political Situation – Micah prophesies during three kings of Judah; Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah., circa 740 BCE. Isaiah also prophesied in Judah during this period. Micah did not belong to the Jerusalem elite and as an oracle of YHWH he spoke of Israel’s religious sins. Micah viewed Jerusalem as morally corrupt where the rulers abused the downtrodden (not much has changed). He proclaims the end of Jerusalem because of the open market, (socialism was a nightmare in the future) from which Micah claimed all successful people (princes, judges, priests, and other prophets) were corrupt. This county boy prophesied to the poor that it was the fault of the corrupt that YHWH would destroy Jerusalem. There appears to be enough evidence that the Book contains oracles after his death, he remains another prophet proclaiming doom only to end with the redeeming salvation of the people.

Zedekiah child of Josiah was made ruler of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. King Zedekiah sent Jehukal child of Shelemiah with Zephaniah child of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: Please ask the Master our God for us. Now Jeremiah was allowed to travel among the place, for he had not yet been placed in jail. Pharaoh's armed force went out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians who were attacking Jerusalem heard the report about them and they pulled back from Jerusalem. The Lord of Israel, said to them that the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will seize it and burn it down. Jeremiah began to leave the city to go to the region of Benjamin to get his offer of the property. Irijah child of Shelemiah captured him. They had him beaten and detained in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a jail. Jeremiah was put into a cell in the prison, where he remained quite a while. Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be put in the yard and given a piece of bread from the road every day until all the bread in

In 2 Samuel 5, King David made a covenant with all the elders of Israel at Hebron before the Lord, and was anointed king of Israel. He then captured the fortress of Zion by

Once they reached a certain point God would allow them to be oppressed by someone. They would then cry out to the lord and h\He would send a judge to deliver them; however, each time they never achieved the height of faith that they had before. The end of the book of Judges sums up Israel as a whole, here the writer says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). After this the children of Israel desired to have a king so that they would be like everyone else. Samuel the prophet went to the Lord in prayer and was told to give them what they wanted. During this time the Nation of Israel was still united and during the time they were united there were three different kings Saul, David, and Solomon. Solomon was the last king to reign during the time of the United Kingdom. However, since he chose to not follow in the footsteps of his father David the kingdom was divided after his death. The northern kingdom came under the rule of Jeroboam and the southern came under the rule of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. This would begin a period of time in which there would be many kings that ruled over the southern and northern kingdoms. The northern kingdom would have nineteen kings during its history and all of them were bad, meaning that they did not follow the ways of the Lord. The southern kingdom during its history would have twenty kings of which some were

The prophets Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah believed that Yahweh had used the Babylonian Empire to punish the Israelites for their sins, and he therefore had the power to redeem them from captivity if they repented. The Babylonian exiles' messianic hope for a restored Judean kingdom under the leadership of a scion of the royal house of David seemed to have been justified when Cyrus the Great, after conquering Babylon in 539 BC, permitted a repatriation of subject populations and a restoration of local temples. The restored Judean commonwealth did not fully realize this hope, however, because the Persians did not allow the reestablishment of a Judean monarchy, but only a temple-state with the high priest as its chief administrator. A truly monotheistic religion developed as the God of Israel came to be seen as the God ruling universal history and the destiny of all nations (Rich 2).

When he was 18 years of age, his father, the Babylon King, died so he was crowned king of the city. The first years of him being king he decided to try and improve the city. He made fixes on the Babylon. After several years of fixing up, the kingdom of Elam invaded into Mesopotamia but thankfully Hammurabi had good army and they invaded the Elamites. After he had defeated them, he turned to his allies Larsa then conquered their city. He soon took control over Mesopotamia by conquering Akkad and Sumer and creating an empire. Once he took over, he wanted to improve the way of life for all people in the kingdom so he made laws which were called the Code of Hammurabi. He built canals, aqueducts, and temples. Hammurabi changed religions and it was a law that had to be obeyed. He expanded Babylon along the Euphrates river to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. Hammurabi was the sixth king in the Babylonian

The spiritual/ theological message about “Christ the King” is that Jesus is the Son of God for a multitude of reasons. First, the statue sends the message that Jesus is the Son of God because of the massive size of the statue. The massive size (33 meters tall and weighs 440 tons) of the structure shows that Jesus has the almighty power just as the father does. Another reason that this massive construction sends the massage that Jesus is the Son of God because of the crown on the statue’s head. This crown represents that he is the prince to of king and father God. Lastly, the statue of Jesus sends the message that Jesus is the Son of God because of the effort put in. The effort that was put in by the people of the area wasn’t much (about $70),

In the biblical world, Samuel was the last of the judges, but he was too old to lead the Israelites, and all his sons were morally wrong to lead a nation. Instead of having another judge to oversee what happens, the Israelites wanted a king. First came Saul, and then out of Saul came Jonathan, his son and heir to the throne, but divinely, God intervened and anointed David and the fitting ruler and king of Israel. What makes Jonathan a hero in the story and life of David is his loyalty to his bestest friend, his love for David, and his sacrifice in giving up his seat in the throne room.

The reign of Jehoiakim was an active and difficult period in Jeremiah’s life. That king was very different from his father, the reforming Josiah, whom Jeremiah commended for doing justice and righteousness. Jeremiah denounced Jehoiakim harshly for his selfishness, materialism, and practice of social injustice.

Before, King David gathered a surplus of wealth when in power to bring the Jewish culture into the Golden Age. “With Solomon...the surplus accumulated...rapidly dissipated in ambitious building.” (Asali p.53) through large fortifications and military armaments. At his old age, he placed a heavy tax burden on his people, and in turn they became largely bitter towards him. After his death, massive conflicts came before the people to eventually split Israel and Judah into separate kingdoms. In 800 B.C.E., “two centuries later, the Assyrians conquered the north, and many of the Jews of Israel were deported” (Ardito, Gambaro and Torrefranca p.42). Later, in 600 B.C.E., the kingdom of Judah was overthrown by the Babylons. In turn, this lead to their captivity as slaves; entering a new era of a nomadic culture spread across the western world. On the other hand, it was this captivity which strengthened their religious identity, and evidently propagated the largest monolithic deity known throughout the 21st century: Jesus Christ.

The book of Ezekiel covers the dates between Ezekiel’s call in July 593 B.C. through his last vision in April 571 B.C. Before the book of Ezekiel can be properly understood some previous dates must first be discussed. When King Solomon died the nation of Israel split into two kingdoms. The first kingdom was still known as Israel, the Northern Kingdom, whose capital was Samaria. The second kingdom became known by the name of the tribe of Judah, the Southern Kingdom, whose capital was Jerusalem. Israel fell to the nation of Assyria in 722 B.C. In 604 B.C. Josiah became king of Judah. Josiah attempted to have a revival in the nation. Though it worked superficially, it was not a genuine revival for the nation. Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, fell in 612 B.C. Most in the nation of Israel took this as a sign that Josiah’s reforms had work. Josiah took the fall of Assyria as