where in the bible does it talk about david?
Psalm 145 Books of Samuel Books of Chronicles Psalms
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 David and Goliath 

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 The Christmas carol Once in Royal David 's City contrasts Christ 's humble birth with his heavenly session ; the last verse begins : 

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 King David 's traitorous son Absalom caught by his hair in a tree while trying to escape and beheaded by David 's troops . 

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 Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem , located in the " hill country " of Judah , may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath , which means " fertile " , as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah . The Bible also calls it Beth @-@ Lehem Judah , and the New Testament describes it as the " City of David " . It is first mentioned in the Tanakh and the Bible as the place where the matriarch Rachel died and was buried " by the wayside " ( Gen. 48 : 7 ) . Rachel 's Tomb , the traditional grave site , stands at the entrance to Bethlehem . According to the Book of Ruth , the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi . It was the home of Jesse , father of King David of Israel , and the site of David 's anointment by the prophet Samuel . It was from the well of Bethlehem that three of his warriors brought him water when he was hiding in the cave of Adullam . 

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 Yet for all that these stories maintain a distance between their world and that of their time of literary growth and composition , they reflect the political realities of the later periods . Many of the narratives deal with the relationship between the ancestors and peoples who were part of Israel ’ s political world at the time the stories began to be written down ( eighth century B.C.E. ) . Lot is the ancestor of the Transjordanian peoples of Ammon and Moab , and Ishmael personifies the nomadic peoples known to have inhabited north Arabia , although located in the Old Testament in the Negev . Esau personifies Edom ( 36 : 1 ) , and Laban represents the Aramean states to Israel ’ s north . A persistent theme is that of difference between the ancestors and the indigenous Canaanites … In fact , the theme of the differences between Judah and Israel , as personified by the ancestors , and the neighboring peoples of the time of the monarchy is pressed effectively into theological service to articulate the choosing by God of Judah and Israel to bring blessing to all peoples . ” 
