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David was the 8th son born to Jesse, an Israelite from the tribe of Judah, descended from Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai), Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob (Israel) and Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah. Over 1,000 years before David became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, and David's nephew Joab became commander of the army, Abraham, Sarah and their nephew Lot moved from Haran to Canaan. Abraham and Lot were wealthy, and Abraham suggested that they live apart from one another. Abraham told Lot to select the region of his choice, and Lot chose to live in the area near Sodom. Abraham and Sarah settled in Hebron, the city wherein David initially reigned as king only over the tribe of Judah. Sometime after Lot moved away, Lot and others were taken captive. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that Abraham and his 318 men recovered everyone and everything. When the Lord God was going to destroy Sodom and the surrounding regions and inhabitants, Abraham spoke to the Lord God. Shortly thereafter, 2 angels brought Lot, his wife and 2 daughters away from Sodom. However, Lot's wife disobeyed a command, looked back, and became a pillar of salt. Lot and his 2 daughters began staying in a cave, and Moab and Ben-ammi were born. Moab, the forefather of the Moabites, was born to Lot and his oldest daughter. Ben-ammi, the forefather of the Ammonites, was born to Lot and his youngest daughter. The Moabites and Ammonites were usually enemies of the Israelites. David's great-grandmother Ruth was a Moabite. When David lived on the run, evading King Saul, the 1st king to rule over the Israelites in the Promised Land, he took his parents to live in the care of a Moabite king. Sometime after David began reigning over all of the Israelites, Joab and his troops were battling the Ammonites while David remained in Jerusalem, the royal city. David and Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, a Hittite, were physically intimate, and Bathsheba became pregnant. David arranged to have Uriah brought home from Rabbah and set back to Rabbah to die in battle. The 1st son born to David and Bathsheba died a week after being afflicted by the Lord God. The 2nd son, Solomon, became the 3rd king to reign over all of the Israelites. Over 900 years after Rehoboam, the son born to Solomon and Naamah, became the 4th king to reign 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. The incident involving David, Bathsheba, Uriah, and Solomon is mentioned in a biblical genealogy of Jesus the Christ.-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, 13:1-33, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
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And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city. And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.-1 Chronicles 20:1-3
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