Why was David considered a man after God's own heart and where can I find this in the Bible?
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Acts 13:22\nAnd when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
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Ah, I see you had David in mind as the purest.  I was thinking, Adam, inasmuch as, before he sinned, he was the purest man.  Scriptures indicate that Joseph overcame this temptation for two primary reasons:  he understood the principle which led to the law that came later (the law against adultery/fornication) and he understood and put into action the need to IMMEDIATELY flee from fornication.  David failed in this respect.  Instead, he allowed desire for Bathsheba to grow and take root in his heart.  Jeremiah says the heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate.  David's heart became desperate and led to his greed (desire out of control).  [A shame, really.  If David was feeling a little, shall we say, anxious, he already had a few wives who could have satisfied his desire.]  Joseph fled the scene before such a thing could develop in his heart.
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My sister, all fall short of the golry of God, you, me and everyone else! King David new the Commandments yet still he let his fleshly desires send his friend to be killed so David could have his friends wife! And David was called by God "A man after God's own heart.". Jesus miracle on the cross has covered you from these things, and you are right to grieve and be sorry because God loves the penitent(or humble) person! You've done wrong yet so did all the Apostles at one time or another so take heart my sister, for God hasn't abandoned you! I will pray for you and hope that you will do the same for me, and God bless you and have faith!
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Matthew tells us that Jesus is the promised son of David the eternal king. as for christian living, A good study of Matthew 5 - 7 will help, \n\nA quote from the article\n\nIn Matthew 5, Jesus explains that true righteousness is internal, a matter of the heart, not just of behavior. In chapter 6, he explains that our religious activities must be sincere, not performances designed to make us look good. In those chapters, Jesus addresses two problems that occur when people focus on external behavior as the main definition of righteousness: external behavior is not all that God wants, and people are tempted to pretend instead of being changed in the heart.\n\nIn chapter 7, Jesus addresses a third problem of a focus on behavior: People who equate righteousness with behavior tend to judge or criticize others.\n\n\nSermon on the Mount\na study of Matthew 5\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/gospels/matt5.htm\n\nSermon on the Mount\nA Study of Matthew 6\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/gospels/matt6.htm\n\nSermon on the Mount: a study of Matthew 7\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/gospels/matt7.htm\n\nAll of the bible is good for learning.\nChristians now are under grace alone faith alone Jesus Alone\nthis does not mean christians can sin a reading of Romans 6:1-23 will show this\n\nHope this helps
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“A Pure Heart” and “a New Spirit”\n\nAfter David confessed, he did not regress to a negative sense of worthlessness. His expressions in the psalms that he wrote about confessions show the relief he felt and his determination to serve God faithfully. Look, for example, at Psalm 32. In verse 1, we read: “Happy is the one whose revolt is pardoned, whose sin is covered.” No matter how serious the sin, a happy outcome is possible if a person is sincere in his repentance. One way to show this sincerity is by accepting full responsibility for one’s actions, as David did. (2 Samuel 12:13) He did not try to justify himself before Jehovah or attempt to pass the blame on to others. Verse 5 says: “My sin I finally confessed to you, and my error I did not cover. I said: ‘I shall make confession over my transgressions to Jehovah.’ And you yourself pardoned the error of my sins.” Genuine confession brings relief, so that a person no longer needs to be plagued by his conscience over past wrongs.\n\nThe superabundance of God’s undeserved kindness is revealed in the fact that whereas the judgment resulted in condemnation from one trespass, the gift resulted in a declaration of righteousness from not one, but many trespasses. Who from among mankind can claim that by their course of action, either willfully or ignorantly, they have not transgressed and reproached Jehovah’s name? How satisfying then is the promise, “Happy are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered; happy is the man whose sin Jehovah will by no means take into account.” (Rom. 4:7, 8,
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Samuel was the last in a line of "judges" (a "spiritual leader" of the Hebrews).  Following Samuel was the first king of Israel: Saul.\n\nNot sure what your looking for beyond that.  The transfer from Samuel to Saul denotes the people's desire to move from a theocracy to a monarchy.
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Jesus on the torture stake asked this question, not because he did not know why  God, his heavenly Father, had forsaken him, but in order that prophecy might be fulfilled. The prophecy here fulfilled was one found in Psalm 22, which was written by David, who was a prophetic type of the Lord Jesus Christ in many respects.\n\nIn the opening words of that psalm, David cries out: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (AV) When any disciples of Jesus who were standing near his torture stake, such as John and Mary, the mother of Jesus, heard him cry out those words of Psalm 22:1, they may not at the time have appreciated why Jesus made such an outcry. But after understanding came upon them, following the outpouring of the holy spirit on the day of Pentecost, then they must have remembered and appreciated the fact that this prophetic outcry identified Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah of God.\n\nOn the torture stake Jesus was indeed forsaken by his heavenly Father, in order that his integrity to God might be tested to the very limit. God forsook him, abandoning him to the cruel devices of Satan the Devil and his wicked religious agents on earth. Thus Satan, who has the means to cause death, was given free allowance to exercise that power against the Son of God.\n\nBut God’s abandonment of Jesus was only as far as allowing the Devil and his dupes to put Jesus to death. This abandonment of Jesus did not include the disposal of his dead body or corpse. Instead of Jesus’ enemies taking his body down from the torture stake and casting it into the fiery valley of Hinnom (or Gehenna), his body was recovered from the torture stake by Joseph of Arimathea, who had the corpse buried in a new tomb that he had cut. This burial of Jesus meant he was in Sheol, the common grave of mankind. In Sheol he was not abandoned by Jehovah God, for Psalm 139:8 (which was written by David, a type of Jesus Christ) says: “If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.” (AS) Hence on the third day after Jesus’ death Jehovah God showed that he had not permanently abandoned Jesus, by raising him from the dead to spirit life immortal. When Jesus later appeared to his disciples that same resurrection day he could therefore say: “All the things written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms about me must be fulfilled,” including Psalm 22:1 (AV), namely, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”—Luke 24:44.
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He war married.  Per Jewish tradition ONLY the groom could provide the refreshments at the wedding. In the wedding at Cana Mary went to Jesus and told him the wine had run out. Unless he was the Groom he had no reason to help nor would Mary have had a reason to inform him of the situation.  \n\nAlso has he was call Rabbi he was required to have been married to hold that title in the Jewish faith.\n\nIf it was not Mary Magdalene that he married why did he appear to her 1st after his Resurrection?  That is an action you would associate with a spouse.  \n\nAs for the Bible not mentioning it? Maybe the writers of the books that are in the Bible felt it was not important enough or else they did not want her disparaged as he is by many today, a sign of respect for her.  Or maybe when is mentioned that those books were not chosen to be in the Bible or were destroyed before the Bible was compiled.  \n\nSo if you want to know, research for yourself and pray. That is what I did. I know he was married beyond a doubt because of my prayers.
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King David. He did some really horrible things. He was quite frankly pretty much a scoundrel. He committed adultery, murder, coveted, lied, he was pretty rotten. But, he repented and he was genuinely sorry for his mistakes. He suffered for them too. He lost his son. He was a man after God's own heart. He had faith. I love the life example of the apostle Paul, but, he was a religious zealot. His humanity was hard to see. David, he was just a sinner trying to make it in the world. He knew his short comings, he loved the Lord, he forged ahead and he struggled with life. David is much more human to me.
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, “the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah”! John is familiar with the prophecy that Jacob, ancestor of the Jewish race, pronounced concerning his fourth son, Judah: “A lion cub Judah is. From the prey, my son, you will certainly go up. He bowed down, he stretched himself out like a lion and, like a lion, who dares rouse him? The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:9, 10) The royal line of God’s people stemmed from Judah. Starting with David, all the kings who ruled in Jerusalem until the Babylonians destroyed that city were Judah’s descendants. But not one of them was the Shiloh prophesied by Jacob. Shiloh means “He Whose [Right] It Is.” Prophetically, this name pointed to Jesus, the one to whom the Davidic Kingdom now permanently belongs.—Ezekiel 21:25-27; Luke 1:32, 33; \n\nJohn quickly recognizes the reference to “the root of David.” The promised Messiah is prophetically called both “a twig out of the stump of Jesse [father of King David] . . . a sprout” and “the root of Jesse that will be standing up as a signal for the peoples.” (Isaiah 11:1, 10) Jesus was a twig of Jesse, being born into the royal line of David, son of Jesse. Further, as a root of Jesse, he was the One that caused the Davidic dynasty to sprout again, giving it life and sustenance forever.—2 Samuel 7:16.
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God transcends gender and can be referred to as He or She. The Jewish male-dominated society influenced the tradition of referring to God as male. \n\nHowever, the same Jewish tradition refers to the Wisdom of God as female. Christians would call Her the Holy Spirit.\n\nThe Bible actually as several images of God as female:\n\nGenesis 1:26-27 Women and Men created in God’s image\n\n“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God s/he created them; male and female God created them.”\n\nHosea 11:3-4 God described as a mother\n\nGod: “Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I who took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with bands of love. I was to them like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them.”\n\nHosea 13:8 God described as a mother bear\n\nGod: “I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs…”\n\nDeuteronomy 32:11-12 God described as a mother eagle\n\n“As an eagle stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young as it spreads its wings, takes them up and bears them aloft on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him…”\n\nDeuteronomy 32:18 God who gives birth\n\n“You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.”\n\nIsaiah 66:13 God as a comforting mother\n\nGod: “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”\n\nIsaiah 49:15 God compared to a nursing mother\n\nGod: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”\n\nIsaiah 42:14 God as a woman in labor\n\nGod: “For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept myself still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.”\n\nJeremiah 44:25 Queen of Heaven\n\n“Thus says…the God of Israel: You and your wives have accomplished in deeds what you declared in words, ‘We are determined to …make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.’ By all means, keep your vows and make your libations!”\n\nPsalm131:2 God as a Mother \n\n“But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.”\n\nPsalm 123:2 God compared to a woman \n\n“As the eyes of a servant look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until God has mercy on us.”\n\nMatthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God as a Mother Hen\n\nJesus: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”\n\nLuke 15:8-10 God as woman looking for her lost coin\n\nJesus: “Or what woman having ten silver coins, is she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” \n\nWith love in Christ.
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(m)\n\nThe original story of David and Goliath is written in the Book of Samuel (I Samuel, 16-18). David was a young Israelite, living with his family in Bethlehem, a few miles south of Jerusalem. Goliath was a well-trained Philistine soldier who stood 9 and 3/4 feet tall. The Israelites, led by King Saul, were in a battle against the great armies of the Philistines.  \n\nGoliath yelled to Israelites, "Choose a man from among you to come fight me. If he can kill me, then the Philistines will be your servants. If I kill him, then all of you will become servants of the Philistines." \n\nYoung David volunteered to fight Goliath. No other soldier was willing to fight the giant. Armed with only a sling and stones, David slung a stone into the giant's forehead. The giant fell down, and David grabbed the giant's sword and killed him. \n\nThis remarkable story, in which the underdog prevails against great odds, has survived thousands of years. The story is familiar. In almost every struggle or competition (military, political, business, athletic, ...), generally one side is weaker than the other. The story is appealing. Knowing that the weaker side can become the victor gives us great hope. The story is exciting. Since the expected outcome is for the stronger side to win, it is exciting when the unexpected occurs and the weaker side prevails.
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Since God created man,praising and worshiping Him; just shows Him how grateful we are to be made from His image.  Our worship should be in the heart.  To define worship in the Bible by looking at the Hebrew and Greek words used to describe it. One Hebrew word means "to bow down" or" to prostate oneself on the ground."  All  I am trying to relay to you and others God is to be exalted, marveled, with everlasting love.  Just because we don't see Him doesn't mean He does not exit, we have been in situations where we obey and do things for something unseen  we have never laid our eyes on, what makes the love that we should have for God so hard, or terrible to do?  Why would you call yourself a homosexual zombie (aka Jesus)?  Is your alias supposed to be pronounced like ha-ZeusI am very happy to know that God is real, and I don't bow down, nor worship any man or false god.  Pray about your feelings and thoughts I bet you that the God in heaven will help you to change your mind, it just takes time, be patient.
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According to the Christian bible Jesus got angry and turned over tables in a synagogue and he also whipped people for selling birds. God does not behave like this and it contradicts Jesus' teaching according to that same bible. The doctrine of Jesus being "fully man and fully god" was not believed by the early Christians and the Roman church came to this conclusion by voting. That's right, let's vote to determine what god is. f that.
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Isaiah 22:22\n\n"The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder: so he shall open, and no one shall shut; and he shall shut, and no one shall open."  \n\n \n\n  Much speculation has come from this passage.Ill briefly examine it using the Bible as its own commentary and see what Isaiah saw. \n\n \n\nThe key\n\n    A key is something that is used to allow entrance; it can also be used to deny entrance. If a father gives his son a key to his house, then he has granted him free access to come in and go out. Our literal understanding of a key helps us to understand this key in Isaiah. Such represents power and authority of various kinds.  \n\nThe house of David\n\n   The house of David refers back to 2 Samuel 7:11-17 where God promises David that He would build David a house (v. 11). This “house” was not of stone and brick, but was a royal dynasty of kingly descendants. Previously, David wanted to build Jehovah a literal house or temple, but God refused his desire saying that his son would build a house for the Lord’s name (vv. 1-13). Solomon immediately fulfilled this promise by building a glorious temple of gold, but Jesus ultimately fulfilled it in building the church which is called the “house of God” in 1 Timothy 3:15. It is also called a “temple” and “dwelling place of God” in Ephesians 2:21-22. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. . .” (Ps. 127:1). To our shame, men who were not content with God’s design, have authored and designed all kinds of churches, but the Lord only built and recognizes one today (Eph. 4:4; 1:22, 23). This church operates within the authority of the New Testament. Jesus is also the fulfillment of God building David an enduring house:\n\n “He [Jesus, sjw] will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end” (Lk. 1:32, 33; cf. v. 27).\n\nJesus-The Key Holder\n\n"These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens."  (Rev. 3:7)\n\n \n\nJesus is not only the key to understanding the fulfillment of Old Testament passages like those in this article, but he is also the key to life and godliness. By having the key of David, Jesus has all authority (cf. Matt. 28:18). Jacob observed after his vision of a ladder extending between heaven and earth that, \n\n"This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!" (Gen. 28:17). \n\nYet, in the New Testament we see that Jesus is the ladder; He connects earth to heaven and He alone has the key to open that heavenly gate for those who obey Him (Jn. 1:51; Heb. 5:9). This a narrow gate to life(cf. Matt. 7:13), is not found in any other person; therefore, have you been baptized into Christ (Jn. 14:6; Gal. 3:26, 27)? Recall, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved. . .” (Jn. 10:9)?
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In context, Matthew 23:7-9 reads, "... And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."\n\nThis is call for humility for those in leadership roles. Not to be taken literally.\n\nWe are not to deny our male parent and cut the Commandment to honor our father and mother in half.\n\nSome leaders in any church may fall into the same folly as the pharisees of Jesus' day.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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What does history show? That only one man fits the identification of God’s Son! Jesus Christ alone! Jesus fits the requirement of being born in David’s lineage; and the Christian Greek Scriptures show how his lineage goes all the way back to David and to Abraham. (Matt. 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38) Outside of the Christian Greek Scriptures there is, for example, the testimony of a Rabbi Ulla, who lived in the third century and who stated that “Jesus was treated exceptionally because of royal extraction.” At the time of Jesus, of course, there were still available temple genealogical records that could be referred to by an interested person.\n\nAs to Jesus’ being born of a virgin, in addition to the Bible (Matt. 1:18-25) there are the writings of Celsus, an enemy of Christianity in the second century, whose writings showed that the virgin birth of Jesus was universally believed in by the early Christians.—Origen Against Celsus, Book I, chapters xxxiv, xxxvii.\n\nMoreover, Jesus was born in David’s city, Bethlehem, as foretold. (Luke 2:1-16) Since Jesus came from the family line of David, his family was in Bethlehem at the time of his birth, as required by the Romans for purposes of registration,\n\nThat makes tribe of JUDAH