Bible Characters · Intermediate · ABOUT 165 MINUTES
Study David’s courage, worship, leadership, moral failure, repentance, family pain, and complicated legacy
Primary passage: 1 Samuel 17:45
Read 1 Samuel 17:45 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on facing goliath and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: 1 Samuel 13:14
Read 1 Samuel 13:14 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on a heart after god and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: 2 Samuel 11:4
Read 2 Samuel 11:4 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on david’s sin and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Primary passage: Psalm 51:17
Read Psalm 51:17 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on a broken and contrite heart and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
