The king also composed “three thousand proverbs” and “over a thousand songs,” and could speak about a vast range of subjects, from cedar wood to different species of animals (I Kings 4:32-33).

In the Book of Samuel, Saul, the first king of Israel, failed to reach a decisive victory against an enemy tribe, the Philistines. God sent the Prophet Samuel to Bethlehem and guided him to David ...

Jeroboam, who had set up golden calves in Bethel, is the archetypal evil king while David is the standard of a good king. All the kings of Israel follow the ways of Jeroboam.

After all, the first restoration of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel occurred with the support of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who was addressed by the Prophet Isaiah as a Messiah; ...

CNA Staff, Feb 19, 2025 / 06:00 am. A new series telling the story of King David, one of the best-known kings of Israel, will be released on Prime Video on Feb. 27.