David is my favorite Bible person. He was SO human... David messed up and lusted after Bathsheba. A married woman. So David, as head of the army, put her husband on the front lines, and of course he died. But he was genuinely sorry, and all through Psalms we can feel David's pain as he cries out to God. He confessed (agreed that it was wrong) and repented (purposed to not do it again) and God did forgive him.
David danced before the Lord 'with all his might' as he brought the Ark of the Covenant (God's actual presence in the Old Testament) into the City of David, so much so, that his Michal (the daughter of Saul) saw him and 'despised him in her heart.' It says, that Michal then 'had no child to the day of her death.' (11 Samuel 6) God's vengeance is always so much worse than man's...
David is also the only person in the Bible that God said is a man after His own heart... Imagine that. A man that murdered is one of God's favorites. Remember God looks at the heart. He saw David's great love for Him, and loved him for that...
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