David on the throne — triumph, tragedy, and a covenant that outlasts them both.
"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my ______;"
David's song of deliverance in 2 Samuel 22 appears almost word for word as Psalm 18 — the rare verse you can study in two books at once.
In 2 Samuel 7, David offers to build God a house; God answers that He will build David one instead — the covenant that leads, generations later, to Christ.
The Bathsheba affair and Nathan's parable of the one little ewe lamb sit in chapters 11 and 12 — four words from the prophet, 'Thou art the man,' and the king crumbles.
David danced before the ark 'with all his might' as it entered Jerusalem — and was despised for it by his own wife. He kept dancing.