AHIMAAZ : Son of Zadok, the high priest. Loyal to David (1 Samuel 15:36;17:17-20;18:19-33; 1 Chronicles 6:8,9,53)
ASAHEL : Nephew of David, and one of his captains (1 Samuel 2:18-24,32;3:27;23:24; 1 Chronicles 2:16;11:26;:)
ASAPH : Son of Berachiah. One of the three leaders of music in David's organization of the tabernacle service (27 Chronicles 15:16-19;16:5-7;25:1-9; 2 Chronicles 5:12;35:15; Nehemiah)
ELEAZAR (ELEAZER) : Son of Dodo, and one of David's distinguished heroes (1 Samuel 23:9,10,13; 1 Chronicles 11:12)
ELHANAN : A distinguished warrior in the time of David, who killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath, the Gittite (1 Samuel 21:19)
ELIPHELET : A son of David, probably identical with number two above (1 Samuel 5:16; 1 Chronicles 3:8;14:7)
GESHUR : Inhabitants of one of the villages of, exterminated, and the spoils taken by David (1 Samuel 27:8)
HADADEZER : King of Zobah, vanquished by David (1 Samuel 8:3-13;10:15-19; 1 Kings 11:23; 1 Chronicles 18:3-10;:)
HAMATH : David receives gifts of gold and silver from Toi, king of (19 Samuel 8:9,10; 1 Chronicles 18:3,9,10)
HANUN : Successor of Nahash as king of Ammon, dishonors David's ambassadors (1 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19)
JABESH-GILEAD : Bones of Saul and his sons removed from, by David, and buried at Zelah (1 Samuel 21:12-14)
JERIMOTH : The disaffected Israelite, who denounced Saul and joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:5)
JERUSALEM : The capital of David's kingdom by divine appointment (1 Kings 15:4; 2 Kings 19:34; 2 Chronicles 6:6;12:13)
JERUSALEM : The citadel of Mount Zion, occupied by David, and called the CITY OF DAVID (2 Samuel 5:5-9; 1 Chronicles 11:7)
JONATHAN : Nephew of David, kills a giant, and becomes one of David's chief warriors (1 Samuel 21:21; 1 Chronicles 20:7)
KIRJATH-JEARIM : David brings the ark of the covenant from (1 Samuel 6:1-11; 1 Chronicles 13:5-8; 2 Chronicles 1:4)
MEPHIBOSHETH : Son of Saul by Rizpah, whom David surrendered to the Gibeonites to be killed (1 Samuel 21:8,9)
OBED : Son of Boaz and grandfather of David (Ruth 4:17-22; 1 Chronicles 2:12; Matthew 1:5; Luke 3:32)
OMRI : Son of Michael, and ruler of the tribe of Issachar during the time of David (1 Chronicles 27:18)
REI : An Israelite who remained loyal to David at the time of the usurpation of Adonijah (1 Kings 1:8)
SHEMAIAH : A chief Levite during the time of David; assisted in moving the ark of the covenant from the house of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles 15:8,11)
SHEWBREAD (SHOWBREAD) : "Unlawfully" eaten by David (1 Samuel 21:6; Matthew 12:3,4; Mark 2:25,26; Luke 6:3,4)
SOLOMON : Succeeds David to the throne of Israel (1 Kings 1:11-48;2:12; 1 Chronicles 23:1;; Ecclesiastes 1:12)
SOLOMON : Renews the courses of the priests and Levites, and the forms of service according to the commandment of Moses and the regulations of David (2 Chronicles 8:12-16;35:4; Nehemiah 12:45)
TABERNACLE : Renewed by David, and pitched upon Mount Zion (1 Chronicles 15:1;16:1,2; 2 Chronicles 1:4)
ZADOK : The high priest during the time of David's reign (26 Samuel 19:11;20:25; 1 Chronicles 15:11;16:39)
ZECHARIAH (ZECHARIAS) : Three Levites in the days of David (1 Chronicles 9:21;15:18,20,24;16:5;26:2,14)
ZERUIAH : Mother of three of David's great soldiers (1 Chronicles 2:16; 2 Samuel 2:18;3:39;16:9-11;17:25)
ZION : Called thereafter "the city of David," (1 Samuel 5:7,9;6:12,16; 1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 11:5,7;15:1,29;)
ZOBAH : Its inhabitants mercenaries of the Ammonites against David (1 Samuel 10:6-19; 1 Chronicles 19:6-19)
ABIATHAR » High priest. Called AHIMELECH in » Escapes to David from the vengeance of Saul, who slew the priests in the City of Nob (1 Samuel 22:20-23; with22:6-19)
ABIATHAR » High priest. Called AHIMELECH in » Consults the ephod for David (1 Samuel 22:9-12;30:9-12)
ABIATHAR » High priest. Called AHIMELECH in » Associate high priest with Zadok in the reign of David (1 Samuel 15:35;20:25; 1 Kings 4:4; 1 Chronicles 15:11)
ABIATHAR » High priest. Called AHIMELECH in » Loyal to David when Absalom rebelled; leaves Jerusalem with the ark of the covenant, but is directed by David to return with the ark (1 Samuel 15:24-29)
ABIATHAR » High priest. Called AHIMELECH in » Helps David by sending his son from Jerusalem to David with secret information concerning the counsel of Ahithophel (1 Samuel 15:35,36;17:15-22; 1 Kings 2:26)
ACCUSATION, FALSE » INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF » Against David by the princes of Ammon (1 Samuel 10:3)
ADULLAM » A cave near the Dead Sea » David takes refuge in (1 Samuel 22:1; 2 Samuel 23:13; 1 Chronicles 11:15)
AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES » FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS IN: INSTANCES OF » David (Psalms 31:11,12;41:9;88:8,18)
AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES » INSTANCES OF RESIGNATION IN » David, at the death of his child (2 Samuel 12:23)
AHIMELECH » Also called AHIA. A high priest, during the reign » Gives shewbread and the sword of Goliath to David (2 Samuel 21; Mark 2:26)
ANGEL (a spirit) » APPEARANCES OF » To David, at the threshing floor of Araunah (2 Samuel 24:16,17; 1 Chronicles 21:15,16)
ANGER » INSTANCES OF » Jonathan, on account of Saul's persecution of David (1 Samuel 20:34; 2 Chronicles 25:10)
ANGER » INSTANCES OF » Saul, toward Jonathan, on account of his sympathy with David (2 Samuel 20:30-34)
ANOINTING » IN CONSECRATION » David (2 Samuel 16:3,12,13; 2 Samuel 2:4;5:3;12:7;19:21; 1 Chronicles 11)
ARK » IN THE TABERNACLE. Called THE ARK » Removed from Jerusalem by Zadok at the time of Absalom's revolt, but returned by command of David (1 Samuel 15:24-29)
BLASPHEMY » INSTANCES OF » Infidels, who used the adultery of David as an occasion to blaspheme (2 Samuel 12:14)
BOW » A WEAPON » David instructed the Israelites in the use of, by writing a war song to (1 Samuel 1:18)
CHAMPIONSHIP » INSTANCES OF » Representatives of the Philistines land David's armies (1 Samuel 21:15-22)
CHURCH AND STATE » STATE SUPERIOR TO RELIGION » David, in organizing the priests and Levites in courses, and appointing musicians, instruments, and other details of religious services (1 Chronicles 23;;; 2 Chronicles 35:4)
CONSECRATION » INSTANCES OF » David consecrates the water obtained by his valiant warriors (2 Samuel 23:16)
CONTENTMENT » INSTANCES OF » Barzillai, in refusing to go with David to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 19:33-37)
CONVICTION » INSTANCES OF » David after the pestilence sent on account of his numbering the people (2 Chronicles 21:30)
DAVID » King of Israel » David goes to Hebron, and is anointed king by Judah (2 Samuel 2:1-4,11;5:5; 1 Kings 2:11; 1 Chronicles 3:4;11:1-3)
DAVID » King of Israel » Abner revolts from Ish-bosheth, and joins David, but is killed by Joab (1 Samuel 3)
DAVID » King of Israel » David is terrified, and leaves the ark at the house of Obed-edom (1 Samuel 6:9-11)
DAVID » King of Israel » After three months, David brings the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem with dancing and great joy (1 Samuel 6:12-16; 1 Chronicles 13)
DAVID » King of Israel » Sends commissioners with a message of sympathy to Hanun, son of the king of Ammon; the message is misinterpreted, and commissioners treated with indignity; David retaliates by invading, and defeats the combined armies of the Ammonites and Syrians (138 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19)
DAVID » King of Israel » David rebukes the priests for not showing loyalty amid the complaints of the people against him (1 Samuel 19:9-15)
DAVID » King of Israel » David as prophet (144 Samuel 23:2-7; 1 Chronicles 28:19; Matthew 22:41-46; Acts 2:25-38;)
DIPLOMACY » INSTANCES OF » David, in sending Hushai Absalom's court (4 Samuel 15:32-37;16:15-19;17:1-14)
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD » INSTANCES OF » Of David, in his adultery, and in arranging for the death of Uriah (2 Samuel 12:9)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » In accusing Ahimelech of conspiring with David against himself (2 Samuel 22:11-16)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » David lied to Ahimelech, professing to have a mission from the king, in order that he might obtain provisions and armor (2 Samuel 21)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the mouth of Hushai (2 Samuel 15:34-37)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » Michal, in the false statement that David was sick, in order to save him from Saul's violence (2 Samuel 19:12-17)
FALSEHOOD » INSTANCES OF » The wife of the Bahurimite who saved the lives of Hushai's messengers, sent to apprise David of the movements of Absalom's army (2 Samuel 17:15-22)
FRIENDS » FALSE FRIENDS » David's friends were false to David (Psalms 35:11-16;41:9;55:12-14,20,21;88:8,18)
GAD » A prophet to David » Bears the divine message to David, offering choice between three evils, for his presumption in numbering Israel (16 Samuel 24:11-14; 1 Chronicles 21:9-13)
GAD » A prophet to David » Bids David build an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan (1 Samuel 24:18,19; 1 Chronicles 21:18,19)
GAD » A tribe of Israel » Disaffected toward Saul as king, and joined the faction under David in the wilderness of Hebron (1 Chronicles 12:8-15,37,38)
GILEAD » A region east of the Jordan River allotted to the » David retreats to, at the time of Absalom's rebellion (1 Samuel 17:16,22,24)
GILGAL » Place of the first encampment of the Israelites we » Tribe of Judah assembles at, to proceed to the east side of the Jordan River to conduct King David back after the defeat of Absalom (1 Samuel 19:14,15,40-43)
GOVERNMENT » GOD IN » In the appointment of David (1 Samuel 16:1,7,13; 2 Samuel 7:13-16; Psalms 89:19-37; Acts 13:22)
HEBRON » A city of the tribe of Judah, south of Jerusalem » David crowned king of Judah at (1 Samuel 2:1-11;)
HEBRON » A city of the tribe of Judah, south of Jerusalem » David crowned king of Israel at (3 Samuel 5:1-5)
HIRAM » Called HURAM, king of Tyre » Builds a house for David (3 Samuel 5:11; 1 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 2:3)
INTEGRITY » INSTANCES OF » David, in his conduct while in refuge with the Philistines (1 Samuel 29:6,9; with29:1-11)
INTEGRITY » INSTANCES OF » Joab, when ordered by David to count the military forces of Israel (1 Chronicles 21:6)
ISRAEL » (Foreshadowing circumstances indicating the separa » Lukewarmness of the ten tribes, and zeal of Judah for David in Absolom's rebellion (2 Samuel 19:41-43)
ISRAEL » (Foreshadowing circumstances indicating the separa » The two factions are distinguished as Israel and Judah during David's reign (2 Samuel 21:2)
ISRAEL » (Usually, in lists, the names of Levi and Joseph, » Number of, when David counted (conducted a census) (2 Samuel 24:1-9; 1 Chronicles 21:5,6;27:23,24)
ISRAEL » UNDER THE KINGS BEFORE THE SEPARATION INTO TWO KIN » David anointed as king (1 Samuel 16:11-13)
ISRAEL » UNDER THE KINGS BEFORE THE SEPARATION INTO TWO KIN » David defeats the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30; 2 Samuel 1:1)
ISRAEL » UNDER THE KINGS BEFORE THE SEPARATION INTO TWO KIN » David made king over all Israel (2 Samuel 5:1-5)