Who was David in the Bible?
Shepherd, poet, and king of Israel
The youngest son of Jesse, anointed by Samuel while still a shepherd boy. He faced the giant Goliath with a sling and became Israel's greatest king, uniting the nation and making Jerusalem its capital. He wrote many of the Psalms; God promised that the Messiah would come from his line. His story holds both soaring faith and real failure.
🤯 What might David have looked like?
A shepherd-king of the tenth century BC — the Bible calls the young David "ruddy, with beautiful eyes, and handsome."
See Ruddy, with beautiful eyes and handsome (1 Samuel 16:12)
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