Old Testament

David, 1623, Gian Lorenzo Bernini  (1598-1680) ——————-      (…continued)  King Saul reluctantly allowed David to fight Goliath, offering him all the best armor and weaponry.  David declined everything, taking only his slingshot and five smooth stones.  Goliath was irritated to see David coming at him with not much more than the shirt on his […]

King David Playing the Harp, 1611, Gerrit van Honthorst ——————      David was Israel’s greatest king.  The nation reached the heights of its power under David’s son Solomon.  But Solomon also sowed the seeds of the nation’s destruction, and within a generation after Solomon died it had been divided and devastated by civil war.

     British journalist William Ewer (1885-1977) once wrote a silly, but profound little poem using only eight words:   How odd Of God To choose The Jews.        A lady once expressed a similar thought in a Bible study I was leading when she said, “Everything in the Old Testament centers so