Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T04:19:53.221Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

David (II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2024

Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

David fulfils the long-hoped-for ambition of all Israel in taking Jerusalem, and establishes himself there with the ark of God, the central, sacramental thing in the religion of the chosen people. He is unaware that his own kingly office is to become a no less venerated centre in the dynasty he founds. For to be king of Jerusalem entailed far-reaching consequences. To be the anointed of Israel gave him an office that could be set in rivalry beside the priesthood of the house of Aaron; and to the general populace of Israel (especially the tribes that had no love for Levi and what they deemed its pretensions) he, not the successor of Aaron, was the spiritual head of the nation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 cf. Deuteronomy 18,15.