<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> David is described in the Hebrew Bible as the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah . </P> <P> In the biblical narrative, David is a young shepherd who first gains fame as a musician and later by killing Goliath . He becomes a favorite of King Saul and a close friend of Saul's son Jonathan . Worried that David is trying to take his throne, Saul turns on David . After Saul and Jonathan are killed in battle, David is anointed as King . David conquers Jerusalem, taking the Ark of the Covenant into the city, and establishing the kingdom founded by Saul . As king, David arranges the death of Uriah the Hittite to cover his adultery with Bathsheba . According to the same biblical text, God denies David the opportunity to build the temple and his son, Absalom, tries to overthrow him . David flees Jerusalem during Absalom's rebellion, but after Absalom's death he returns to the city to rule Israel . Before his peaceful death, he chooses his son Solomon as his successor . He is mentioned in the prophetic literature as an ideal king and an ancestor of a future Messiah, and many psalms are ascribed to him . </P> <P> Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably existed around 1000 BCE, but that there is little that can be said about him as a historical figure . There is no direct evidence outside of the Bible concerning David, but the Tel Dan Stele, an inscribed stone erected by a king of Damascus in the late 9th / early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate his victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase ביתדוד ‬, bytdwd, which most scholars translate as "House of David". Ancient Near East historians generally doubt that the united monarchy as described in the Bible existed . </P>

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