Good Times and Happy Days

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.-1 Kings 4:20-25***Over a decade after David was born, Samuel the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi, anointed David to reign as king, according to the command of the Lord God. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that sometime before David killed and beheaded Goliath the gigantic  Philistine, David killed at least 1 lion and 1 bear. Before David became the 2nd king to rule over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, David fought Geshurites, Girzites, Amalekites, and Philistines. However, David did not fight King Saul. Saul was the 1st king to rule over the Israelites in the Promised Land, and was reigning when Samuel anointed David. Initially, David served as a musician and an armor-bearer for Saul. After Goliath was dead, David and Jonathan, Saul's son, made a covenant. The Israelite women sang of David higher than they sang of Saul, and Saul was angry. Saul wanted to kill David, and became afraid of David, and sent David on missions to get killed, and commanded others, including Jonathan, to kill David. Saul's daughter Michal was married to David and helped David escape from their home. After the Philistines killed Jonathan and his brothers Malchishua and Abinadab (Ishui?), and Saul's self-inflicted death on the same battlefield, men from the tribe of Judah, the tribe of David's birth, anointed 30-year-old David, and David began to reign only over the tribe of Judah. Saul's son Ishbosheth ruled over the other Israelite tribes. In Gibeon, David's men fought against the other Israelites. Sometime after Ishbosheth was murdered, the Israelite elders went to David and David made a covenant with them. The elders anointed 37-year-old David, and David began to rule over all of the Israelites. During his reign, David fought the  Philistines, Moabites, Syrians (Arameans), Ammonites, Edomites, and Amalekites. Absalom, the son born to David and Maacah, had himself proclaimed king while David reigned. David's army fought Absalom's troops, and Absalom's cousin Joab was responsible for Absalom's death. When David was elderly and still reigning, Adonijah, the son born to David and Haggith, worked to have himself proclaimed king. However, David identified  Solomon as king. Solomon was the 2nd child born to David and Bathsheba, and he experienced a peaceful reign, according to the word and will of the Lord God. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to rule over all of the Israelites, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-14:31, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles 1:1-12:16, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26 

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