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After God’s Own Heart: The Gospel according to David is unavailable, but you can change that!

With lucid insights on every page, After God’s Own Heart examines the life of David, showing how the Old Testament king relates to anointing, covenant, the temple, and sin. Ultimately, however, the author shows how David pictures the Messiah to come. This volume in the Gospel According to the Old Testament series includes questions for individual or group study.

The evidence that we have highlighted in the Torah and the Former Prophets (Genesis–2 Kings) reveals that there were an expectation and justification for some form of royal rule in Israel, and that such was not an afterthought or even an accommodation to human sinfulness. This fixation with kingship and the Davidic dynasty will be affirmed in our final chapter (“David and Messiah”) as we look at the witness of the Latter Prophets (Isaiah–Malachi). Therefore, God’s problem with kingship in 1 Samuel
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