According to the bible, David was born in Bethlehem, he was from the Tribe of Judah. David's father was Jesse, his grandfather was Obed, and Obed’s mother was the Moabite Ruth. Obed’s grandmother was the former prostitute Rahab.

David’s Introduction
There are three consecutive stories in the bible that introduce David. They sit next to each other, without any reference to each other and often appear contradictory.

The first introduction to the story of David is when God instructs Samuel to go to Jesse and his family in order to anoint Israel’s future King. Saul sees Eliab, Jesse’s first son and he judges by appearance ‘surely this is the Lord’s anointed’ 1 Samuel 16:6. God then tells Samuel that he had rejected Eliab because He judges by …show more content…
At David’s anointing God warned Samuel about not judging with outward appearances but from the heart. Interestingly, David’s attractiveness was mentioned in all the three introduction. David seems to inspire love – he seems to be the object of love while appearing to do nothing to encourage it. What have I done? He asks when the answer is plain to everyone else (1 Samuel 17:29, 20:1)

Shrewd, Inventive, Manipulative and Cunning - David feigns madness to escape capture and execution (1 Samuel 21:3-14). He pretends to defect to the philistines in order to keep his distance from Saul. But takes things too far. He systematically wipes out whole towns, leaving no one alive to tell the story (1 Samuel 27). Today he would be accused of war crimes.

Principled and God fearing – David refused to drink the water that his soldiers risked their lives to get for him (2 Samuel 23:16-17). He had opportunities to kill Saul yet he did not. He would not ‘lay a hand on God’s anointed’. From the Psalms, we see that he is a person of prayer and faith. David’s sensitivity in the psalms is contradictory to some of his stories in the Samuel narrative. Also, David always enquired from God before undertaking any