David’s stellar, consistent walk of faith and obedience was tragically marred by his adulterous affair with Bathsheba and his arrangement of the murder of her husband. Turmoil was the trademark of David’s household from that point on (2 Samuel 12:10; 12:15–19; 13:1–19; etc.). But David was repentant. The conclusion of 2 Samuel includes two songs of David that provide summaries of his life. The one found in 2 Samuel 22 (also found in Psalm 18) is much longer than the one recorded in our printed text