What caused God to call king David "a man after his own heart"?

Question

1 Sam 13:14

Answer 1

Because he wanted what God wanted.  The only sin David committed according to the Bible was killing Uriah, God told him if he would have asked for her God would have given him Uriah's wife.  (David ordered him to be killed, he didn't do it himself.)  Most ignorant religionists think the sin was sleeping or committing adultery with Uriah's wife, that is not what the Bible says.

Answer 2

Are you really willing to hear the whole story?

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE even multiplicity of partners is not a MORAL issue...!!! Believe it or not, the Bible God is very much responsible for who gets what girl for a wife! In fact, God is known to take the wives AWAY from husbands and GIVE them to other MEN! Not in an isolated case, but as a routine!!!

Jeremiah 10:10a (NIV) Therefore I* (*God) will GIVE THEIR WIVES TO OTHER MEN* (*Plural) and their fields to new owners* (*this Bible God is messing in human affairs like it is no joke!)

2 Samuel 12:8 (NIV) I* (*God) gave your master's house to you* (*King David), and YOUR MASTER'S WIVES* (ex-King Saul’s wives) into your arms. I* (*God) gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more (More totally submissive wives yet! Wow! Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus!)

King David got Bathsheba pregnant and got her husband killed to take her all for himself in spite of the fact that King David already had many wives. God was King David’s personal pimp and God didn’t like what King David did on his own!



2 Samuel 12:11-12 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: “Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I WILL TAKE YOUR WIVES AND GIVE THEM to one who is close to you, and HE WILL LIE WITH YOUR WIVES in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.”

Done! (2 Sam 16:21-22)  BTW… Bathsheba was King David’s favorite wife… she was one of the ancestors of Jesus! AND SHE IS HAVING s*x NOW WITH SOMEBODY ELSE NOT ANYMORE WITH ANY OF HER ORIGINAL HUSBANDS a God given third stud! Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus!!! No wonder the girls in the X rated movies keep crying for God and they end up with even more partners!!! It is all Biblical!

Ezekiel 16:37 (NIV) therefore I* (*God) am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I* (*God) WILL GATHER THEM AGAINST YOU FROM ALL AROUND AND WILL STRIP YOU IN FRONT OF THEM, AND THEY WILL SEE ALL YOUR NAKEDNESS.

I would definitely love to attend on a first row seat!!! Hey, NOT BAD AT ALL…!!! Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus…! That’s a God led REVIVAL meeting idea... Parading NAKED LADIES in front of their lovers and admirers! it has a strong message… especially for the God hating atheists! They don’t know what they are missing for not fellowshipping with the Christians!



God loves an ADULT DAY CLUB setting in full public view without any age restrictions! Private NIGHT CLUBS “for adults only” are of the Devil!!! God will never force anybody to sin… so ladies, enjoy all you can IT IS ALL ON GOD…! NO NEED TO BE SHY! In the case of King David’s wives God changed their husbands at least 3 times! Isn’t God so wonderful? I know that some of you have a successful marriage, but be nice with the wives of poorly performing husbands. Some of these Christian ladies wouldn’t stop praising the LORD and Sweet Jesus for some real change or the hope of a change! Amen? This is all in the Bible and the preachers KNOW…!!!

BTW… You should know that King David was already married to Michal the daughter of King Saul (1 Sam 18-19). So when God passed all the wives of King Saul to King David he became automatically married to Michal’s mother, too! Isn’t God so wonderful for the Christian!!! God is not a “respecter of persons” and he “never changes” so with the Bible God’s approval a man of God can be in bed with the mother and her daughter at the same time to keep it all in the family!  The Bible allows you all kinds of excesses as long as you side with the Bible God! The Christian is limited only by the secular morality prevalent at the moment and place just to save face, but the rest can be done in the closet!  The clergy is unfairly hiding all these facts from the general public! What Jimmy Swaggart and so many others did with hookers is nothing unusual. The Bible flip flops a lot on moral issues! Most people writing the Bible were not different from you and I except that they lived back then when hardly anybody heard of CNN. Can you imagine any preacher having to explain why he has 1,000 wives and lovers* (*concubines) OK… make it one wife and 999 lovers? It is all Biblical! Today, it is the Puritan repressive lifestyle what the Christians in America have chosen as standard of morality for everybody, not necessarily the liberal Bible standards!

Answer 3

God is far wiser then you or I and knows the Truth about everyone.  

Answer 4

Because God likes guys who spy on naked ladies bathing... and then has their husbands killed so he can have them.  

Answer 5

Amen.

I enjoyed what our brother Jimmy  had to share on this verse in the Bible.

One thing that I believe made David so special to God and  " a man after His own heart" was because, unlike many others who sought things for themselves, David sought out and desires what was on God's heart.

This man David saw something that others missed. He saw that God desired a place where all that were His own could come to be with Him. David swore that he would not go up to his own house, or go up to his bed or give slumber to his eyelids until he found a place for God to be at home among His people ( Psa 132).

This touched God's heart so much. Everyone else were seeking after their own things, but David swore something to God that touched His heart. He sought what was On God's heart above his own desires.

Eventually this desire was not carried out specifically by David, but through his son Solomon ( 1 Kings 6). God was finally given this magnificient place where He could come to be among His people. He was no longer limited to being in a " tent" but was given this amazing House where  the Mighty God and His people could meet for worship and for God to dispense Himself as their rich supply to go on each day.

In all of old testament history, David saw this. There are many great men in the Old testament who carried out the Will of God... yet David touched the heart of God's heart and saw that God wanted a place to settle down and be at rest with His people. This made David a man after God's own heart.

Ty for this awesome question sis.

Yours in Christ

sandy

Answer 6

David consistently did things his own way, like having a number of wives and concubines but still lusting after another man's wife and essentially murdering him.  

Answer 7

It is interesting to note that in the new testament, we see the same quote where God declared King David to be a man after his own heart in the apostle Paul's sermon.

"And when He had removed him (King Saul), He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.'" (Acts 13:23)

Does it sound familiar? A man who will do all God's will?

Paul continued to say, "From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Saviour - Jesus..." (Acts 13:24) So we see that God has chosen David's seed or family line to raise up Jesus, His own beloved Son.

Now, the name "David" means "beloved" in Hebrew, and in terms of typology, David is a type of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Just as there were two trees in the garden of Eden, there were two kings of Israel (initially). The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a picture of the law, whereas the tree of life is a picture of grace - the person of Jesus Christ. The law presupposes man's obedience (or man's strength), and King Saul was an example of someone who depends on his flesh or self-efforts, not on the Lord. Grace presupposes God's unmerited favour, and King David was an example of someone who depends on God's goodness. It was David who wrote "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." (Psalm 23:6)

Unlike King Saul, King David has a good opinion of God. In 1 Samuel 17, we see that the children of Israel, including King Saul himself, were afraid of the Philistine enemies, especially the giant Goliath of Gath. But David, who was a young shepherd boy, probably about 17 years old, was not afraid of Goliath and his threats. David was conscious only of how big God is, who has delivered him from the bear and the lion in the past. David made sure his enemies hear the greatness of our Lord God - "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD's and He will give you into our hands." (1 Samuel 17:45-47)

Because David made much of God, God made much of David. God ensured that the stone he slung flew right into Goliath's forehead, and brought down the giant, and secured a victory for Israel over the Philistines.

Unlike King Saul, who neglected the Ark of the covenant during his 40-year reign, when David became a king later on, he cared about the Ark and wanted to bring back the Ark into Jerusalem. It is believed that David wrote Psalm 132 to express this desire of his heart - "I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob... Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength." (Psalm 132:4-8) Again, in terms of typology, the Ark of the covenant represents Jesus Christ and His finished work at the cross. He is the mercy seat, on which His own blood was sprinkled in heaven for the forgiveness of all our sins. (Hebrews 9:12) Therefore, we learn that whoever values and cherishes God's darling Son is considered a man or woman after His own heart. :)

When King David brought back the Ark of the covenant to Jerusalem, he offered animal sacrifices, and danced before the LORD in worship and celebration. (2 Samuel 6) Not only that, when the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around, King David now wanted to build the LORD a house to dwell in. God had to send the prophet Nathan to tell him that He does not need to dwell in a house built by hands, and instead He will build David a house. And He promised David's throne will be established forever, thereby prophesying the Messiah Jesus would come from his family line. (2 Samuel 7)

In response of God's promises, David simply believed and received them freely. That pleases God's heart, because faith pleases God. David said, "Now, O LORD God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said. So let Your name be magnified forever..." (2 Samuel 7:25-26) In the same way, when we believe and receive God's promises over our own lives, simply and freely like little children, God is pleased with our faith, for His name will be magnified in our blessedness in Christ.

Finally, David is a type of Jesus Christ, whom God declared during His baptism at the river Jordan - "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Luke 3:22) As we have seen earlier in Acts 13, David (for all his imperfections) would do all God's will. So would Jesus, who prayed, "Abba Father, not My will but Yours be done" in the garden of Gethsemane. And Jesus carried out His Father's will by going to the cross and bore all the full punishment for all our sins, so that God will never punish us when we place our trust in His Son. Jesus' death and resurrection fulfilled God's will, as it is written, "Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: 'Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come - in the volume of the book it is written of Me - to do Your will.'" (Hebrews 10:5-7) Jesus' redemptive work at the cross fulfils Psalm 40:6-8.

Now that Jesus has fulfilled God's will, He has taken away the first covenant of law, and establish the second covenant of grace. (Hebrews 10:9) Having believed on the Lord Jesus, we are living under the new covenant, in which God remembers our sins no more, and He will write His laws in our hearts and minds, and we will know Him intuitively. (Hebrews 8:7-13) Not only that, Jesus Christ - the true Ark of the covenant - has finally found His resting place in our hearts, for we are the living, breathing, walking temples of the Holy Spirit, in whom God dwells, and He will never leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews 13:5)

Hope this answers your question. God bless you, sister. :)

Answer 8

Because even though he committed some horrible sins, he was always humble and asked God for forgiveness.  King Saul before him also committed some horrible sins, but always tried to rationalize what he did and never asked for forgiveness, so God took the kingdom away from him and gave it to David.  God wants us to be like David and be humble and have a heart that loves Him.

Answer 9

He was humble, courageous (no fear), full of mercy and love of God, worshiped God much, obeyed the Lord without complaining or arguing, had great faith.

Answer 10

murder, adultery, conquest, and rule without question

Answer 11

I believe sincerity and a love for God are the main reasons :)

Answer 12

Both rat bags.

Answer 13

politics.

Answer 14

both are evil dirt bag tyrants. only thing was that david worked for the bigger evil tyrant of god.  

Answer 15

David understood what God desired, a repentant heart.