David: A Man After God's Own Heart

A young shepherd named David, from the family of Jesse, is called “the man after God’s own heart” by God himself. Samuel the prophet is instructed by God to stop grieving over the divine rejection of Israel’s first king, Saul, whom Samuel helped appoint as king at the demand of the people, Instead, Samuel was to go to Bethlehem to anoint Saul’s successor. But once this successor to the kingship of Israel was found, he was not left with nothing to do; instead, David, though he came from humb...