David

Person

Shepherd, king, and psalmist; the line through which the Messiah was promised to come.

Their thread through Scripture

Ruth 4:17
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
Samuel anoints David; the Spirit rushes upon him.
1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
David faces Goliath "in the name of the Lord of Armies."
2 Samuel 7:12
When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
God promises David an everlasting throne.
Psalms 23:1
A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
"The Lord is my shepherd" — a psalm of David.
Matthew 1:1
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Jesus as the promised king from David's line.
Acts 13:22
When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
"A man after my own heart, who will do all my will."