Tao Te Ching
King David
1000 – 920 BCE
"The baffled king composing Hallelujah!"
King David דָּוִד (fl. c. 1000 BCE)
Possibly fictional but in any case powerful symbol of an ideal king and political leader, David. a shepherd, began his public life as a musician with a "secret chord" that chased away an evil spirit possessing King Saul. Leonard Cohen described him as “the baffled king composing Hallelujah!’ and Bonoas ‘the first God heckler’ and his shouting of 'Why hast thou forsaken me?’ as ‘the beginning of the blues.’ Israel's greatest poet and warrior, famous for success in his defeat of the giant, Goliath; he also became infamous for his infatuation with Bathsheba and the corrupting influence of forbidden pleasure that led to adultery and murder but also to the birth of Solomon.
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Quotes by King David (15 quotes)
“Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Give me a bent for your words of wisdom, and not for piling up loot.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Your soul is nourished when you are kind, destroyed when you are cruel.”
from Book of Psalms
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“All rivers run into the sea and yet the sea is not full.”
from Book of Psalms
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“I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side… You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil”
from Book of Psalms
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“How long will you love delusions and seek false gods”
from Book of Psalms
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“As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower in the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for... surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Blessed are the man and the woman who have grown beyond their greed and have put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Each new dawn is a miracle; each new sky fills with beauty. Their testimony speaks to the whole world and reaches to the ends of the earth.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Let me keep surrendering my self until I am utterly transparent... Unnamable God, my essence, my origin, my life-blood, my home.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Lord, my mind is not noisy with desires, and my heart has satisfied its longing. I do not care about religion or anything that is not you.”
from Book of Psalms
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“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
from Book of Psalms
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Quotes about King David (1 quotes)
“David was a fascinating brigand who made himself rich with robbery, usurped the throne of Saul, stole other men's wives, broke every commandment, and is honored by posterity as the pious author of the Psalms. But these were composed by many hands, and any hand but David's”
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