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Topic:
David The Bethlehemite
Ruth, famous chiefly as the ancestress of David, and of the Messiah,
settled in Bethlehem with her second husband Boaz, and it is noticeable
that from her new home she could view the mountains of Moab, her native
land. David himself "was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah,
whose name was Jesse" (1 Sam 17:12). To Bethlehem came Samuel to
anoint a successor to unworthy Saul (1 Sam 16:4): "David went to
and fro from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem" (1 Sam
17:15). David's "three mighty men" "brake through the
host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem,
that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David" (2 Sam
23:14,16). Tradition still points out the well. From this town came
those famous "sons of Zeruiah," David's nephews, whose loyalty
and whose ruthless cruelty became at once a protection and a menace to
their royal relative: in 2 Sam 2:32 it is mentioned that one of them,
Asahel, was buried "in the sepulchre of his father, which was in
Bethlehem."
Source: Erdman's Bible Encyclopedia, 1939, Erdman Publishing
Contributor: E. W. G. Masterman
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