I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.

The youngest son of an agrarian family, introduced into the royal court of King Saul for his musical and military talents and acclaimed king of the united kingdom of Israel. He is remembered both as a man after God's own heart, merciful even to his enemies, but also for his midlife failures with Bathsheba, Uriah the Hittite and his sons Amnon and Absolom. For his great fidelity to YHWH, God blessed him, making him an antitype and a progenitor of the forthcoming divine Son and Messiah.

He is shown with the harp that calmed the fury of King Saul and a banderole carrying the beginning of his Psalm 50, recounting his meek return to God after his sin with Bathsheba, Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy.

8 x 10”