Compare and contrast david Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You. Solomons Temple was the only place on earth where the true worship of God could be offered; its rites were the only true rites; and its priests were the only true priests. %PDF-1.3 The Ark was a symbol of the Church; and it is significant that the birth of the Church, at Pentecost, took place on Zion, beside Davids tomb (Acts 2). And strictly speaking the People of God remained a Theocracy, without a formal State structure, until the time of the Prophet Samuel, who anointed the first King of Israel, Saul. But now your kingdom shall not continue. saul promised not to do this to david. After David was anointed he continued to obey and follow God. After Nathans rebuke, Davids immediate response was, I have sinned against the Lord. II Samuel 12:13 Notice the difference when confronted by their sins. SparkNotes In 1 Sam 10:7, Samuel tells Saul to do as occasion serves him, since God was with him. Whereas David prefigures Christ as the Founder of the Church in Zion, Solomon, through his relationship with foreign rulers in Egypt, Tyre and Sheba, and his expansion of Israel to its greatest geographical extent and splendour, prefigures the Lords sending out of the apostles into the Gentile world and the expansion of the Church throughout the oikoumene. exhorting them to turn from sin and to Christ. Finally, He Himself enthroned kings over them, continuing to work miraculous signs over the kings, too. Neither Abraham nor Moses was a king. And they hate me with cruel hatred. Judges 6.34), and the people, recognizing this, then elected him as their Judge (cf. However, it is important to realize that there was no radical separation of powers in the modern sense. David vs Solomon: The BIG difference in their approach to However, when each of them died, his authority died with him; for there was no hereditary succession. Israel The people had to come to worship in the Temple three times in the years: on the feasts of Pascha, Pentecost and Tabernacles. 2009 northern iowa football roster. For You are the God of my salvation; But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. We see this clearly in the case of King Uzziah, who was punished with leprosy for presuming to burn incense before the Lord Nevertheless, the king was central to, and pre-eminent in, the life of the nation in a way that even the high priest could not be. not and Solomon did slide in the end.