David’s reign in Jerusalem could be briefly summarised as following:
(1). ‘David’s… greatness was characterized by great territorial gains for Israel (2 Samuel 8:1-14). Within a relatively short period of time, he ruled from The Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in the The Tigris-Euphrates Valley (2 Samuel 8:3-13)’ (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/david.htm).
(2). On the other hand, ‘David’s success was focused too heavily on material gains, and it corrupted him. His committing of adultery with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband Uriah in an attempt to cover it up was perhaps the darkest event of his life’ (ibid).
(3). Furthermore, ‘His many wives and children were constantly in fierce competition with each other within the family’ and one of such conflicts even ‘triggered a civil war’ (ibid).
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He reigned as king of Israel for forty years and six months (2 Samuel 5:5) and when he died at the age of seventy, it is said that he ‘was buried in the city of David (1 Kings 2:10-11)’ (ibid).
For reading the text in full: http://wrex2009.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/the-ark-of-covenant-and-the-reign-of-king-david/
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