I, David
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What would King David tell us if he could talk to us today from his palace three thousand years ago? What would he say about Goliath? about his issues with King Saul? about his wars? and what about Bathsheba? Read, in first-person style, what King David has to say about his life and adventures.
Other books in the “I” series include :I, Abraham, I, Moses, I,Jeremiah, I,Paul, and I,The Prophet.
Edwin Walhout
I am a retired minister of the Christian Reformed Church, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being retired from professional life, I am now free to explore theology without the constraints of ecclesiastical loyalties. You will be challenged by the ebooks I am supplying on Smashwords.
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I, David - Edwin Walhout
I, David
First-Person Transcriptions from the Old Testament King
by Edwin Walhout
Published by Edwin Walhout
Copyright 2010 Edwin Walhout
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 When I Was a Boy
2 I Fight a Giant
3 In King Saul’s Army
4 I’m an Outlaw
5 King Saul Tries to Kill Me
6 Pretend Philistines
7 King Over Judah
8 King of All Israel
9 My Own City
10 I Fight Israel’s Battles
11 We Bring Back the Ark
12 I Keep Fighting
13 I Sin Against God
14 My Children Make Trouble
15 Absalom, My Son, My Son
16 I Keep My Throne
17 I Make Solomon King
18 Solomon Handles Problems
19 Solomon’s Building Projects
Time Travel Plans
My first time travel trip was to interview the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, after which the West Michigan Institute of Time Travel sent me to visit Abraham. Now I am reporting on my visit to King David. Future plans call for a visit to Moses and Paul, and then we are laying plans to visit all – yes, all! -- the other prophets in the Old Testament.
But now, for David, we had to figure out when in his life to interview him. We decided to try for when he was a very old man,just after he made his son Solomon king. When they first sent me back the timing was a bit off. I got to Jerusalem all right, but David wasn’t there. It seems his son Absalom was off chasing him somewhere. We were too early, so the time travel crew bumped me up a few years where I found him still living in his palace even though Solomon was king.
1 When I Was a Boy
A funny thing happened when I talked to David. He thought I was an angel from God, which helped to get our conversation started. I asked him to tell me about his boyhood on the farm near Bethlehem.
[Based on 1 Samuel 16]
I was the youngest son of eight. My father’s name was Jesse. My grandfather was Obed. My great-grandfather was Boaz. My great-grandmother was a Moabite lady named Ruth, so my ancestry is not pure Jewish.
As I said, I was the youngest son. That meant I was the one who had to do the jobs my older brothers didn’t want to do,one of which was watching the family’s flock of sheep.
There was nothing much to do out there in the field all day, so I had to find some way to occupy my time. I made myself a kind of harp, with strings, and practiced playing it until I could pick out some nice tunes. That was one thing I did.
Another thing I did to occupy my time was to practice with a slingshot. I made a leather pouch, tied some leather cords to it, and practiced throwing stones at a target. I got to be pretty good. In fact, it was a useful thing to do, because once in a while some wild animal would come smelling around the sheep. Often it happened that I threw a stone at a small lion or bear and drove it away from the sheep.
Once a young lion had a lamb in his mouth already by the time I got there. I jumped on the lion’s back, wrapped my legs around his belly, and pulled his jaws open to free the sheep. Then I kept on pulling