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David

דוד he ܕܘܝܕ arc

King of Israel and Judah

  • Child of Jesse and Nitzevet
  • Consort of Bathsheba, Abigail, Eglah and 5 more
  • Traditionally 1039 BCE – 969 BCE
  • Recognised as Saint

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Offices held 2

  1. 1003 BCE – 970 BCE King of Israel Succeeded Ish-bosheth · Succeeded by Solomon
  2. Dates unrecorded prophet

Family tree

As the myths and records give it. Versions differ from source to source.

The family as a list · 37

Kinship in an account 36

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Family 1

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

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Connections

Affiliation 3

Identification 1

Recorded events and days 1

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