| | KING DAVID : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | 1005 BC – 965 BC) and successor to King Saul. |
 | | The Hebrew Bible places David's reign from around 1005 until around 965 BC and the end of the reign of the last king of the Davidic dynasty at 586 BCE; building on this basis, the first sentence of the New Testament asserts that Jesus is "the son of David" (Matthew 1:1). |
 | | Observations such as this serve to underline the likelihood that the narrative is drawn from numerous originally independent sources. |
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