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born Bethlehem, Judah
died с 962 BC, Jerusalem
Second of the Israelite kings (r. с 1000–с 962 BC).
David was an aide at the court of Saul until the monarch's jealousy forced him into outlawry. He became king of Israel on Saul's death. He captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made it his capital, defeated the Philistine s, and gained control of many bordering kingdoms. He faced several revolts, including one by his third son, Absalom . He unified all Israel into one kingdom and made Jerusalem both the religious and political centre. He made the name Yahweh the supreme name for the god of Israel, who was worshiped in Jerusalem, and ruled that all other names for God were mere titles or attributes of Yahweh. Though the kingdom split under David's son and successor Solomon , religious unity endured, and the house of David symbolized the bond between God and Israel. The word messiah comes from hameshiach , the title of kings of the line of David.
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Attenborough Sir David Frederick
Baltimore David
Belasco David
Ben Gurion David
David Gruen
Bergey David Hendricks
Bohr Niels Henrik David
Bowie David
David Robert Jones
Brewer David Josiah
David Warren Brubeck
Byrne David
Camp David
Camp David Accords
Casement Sir Roger David
Chambers David Whittaker
Coolidge William David
David Crockett
Cronenberg David
David ap Llywelyn
David II
David the Builder
David I
David of Tao
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David Jacques Louis
David Star of
Magen David
Davis David
Dubinsky David
Duncan David Douglas
Eisenhower Dwight David
Eldridge David Roy
Fairchild David Grandison
Farragut David Glasgow
Friedrich Caspar David
Frost Sir David Paradine
Garrick David
Benjamin David Goodman
Griffith David Wark
Gross Samuel David
Hilbert David
Hill David Octavius and Robert Adamson
Hockney David
Hubel David Hunter
Hume David
David Jones
Jordan David Starr
Josephson Brian David
Kaunda Kenneth David
David Daniel Kaminski
Kern Jerome David
Key David McKendree
Laing Ronald David
Lawrence David Herbert
David John Moore Cornwell
Lean Sir David
Letterman David
Livingstone David
Lloyd George of Dwyfor David Lloyd George Earl
Lynch David
David Harrison Macon
Mamet David Alan
Maysles Albert and David
McGwire Mark David
Merrick David
David Margulois
Ogilvy David Mackenzie
Oistrakh David Fyodorovich
Peckinpah David Samuel
Porter David
Porter David Dixon
Ricardo David
Riccio David
Richardson Sir Ralph David
Riesman David
Rittenhouse David
Rockefeller David
Ross Sir William David
Rusk David Dean
Salinger Jerome David
Sarnoff David
Scharnhorst Gerhard Johann David von
Scofield David Paul
Selznick David Oliver
Siqueiros David Alfaro
Smith David Roland
Souter David Hackett
Susskind David Howard
Teniers David
Thoreau Henry David
Trimble William David
Walker David
Weisgall Hugo David
Yorck von Wartenburg Johann David Ludwig Count
Zinder Norton David