Editing David (section)

===Christianity===
{{Infobox saint
| name = King David the Prophet
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| feast_day = December 29, 6 October – Catholicism
| venerated_in = [[Catholic Church]]<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://catholicsaints.info/king-david/| title=King David| date=2008-10-28| access-date=2019-09-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420233200/http://catholicsaints.info/king-david/| archive-date=2019-04-20| url-status=live}}</ref><br/>[[Eastern Orthodoxy]]{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}<br/>[[Oriental Orthodoxy]]
| image = 5201-king-david-in-prayer-pieter-de-grebber.jpg
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| caption = ''King David in Prayer'', by [[Pieter de Grebber]] ({{Circa|1640}})
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| titles = Holy Monarch, Prophet, Reformer, Spiritual Poet and Musician, Vicegerent of God, Psalm-Receiver
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| attributes = [[Psalms]], [[Harp]], Head of [[Goliath]]
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{{See also|Genealogy of Jesus|Davidic line}}
The Messiah concept is fundamental in Christianity. Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment ("the anointed one", as the title [[Messiah]] had it), in the last two centuries BCE the "son of David" became the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom. This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus "by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man".<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/152497/David "David"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819074455/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/152497/David |date=2009-08-19 }} article from ''Encyclopædia Britannica Online''</ref>

The early Church believed that "the life of David foreshadowed the life of Christ; [[Bethlehem]] is the birthplace of both; the shepherd life of David points out Christ, [[The Good Shepherd (Christianity)|the Good Shepherd]]; the five stones chosen to slay Goliath are [[Typology (theology)|typical]] of the [[Holy Wounds|five wounds]]; the betrayal by his trusted counsellor, [[Ahitophel]], and the passage over the [[Kidron Valley|Cedron]] remind us of Christ's [[Passion (Christianity)|Sacred Passion]]. Many of the Davidic Psalms, as we learn from the New Testament, are clearly typical of the future Messiah."<ref name=corbett>John Corbett (1911) [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04642b.htm King David] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070925212531/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04642b.htm |date=2007-09-25 }} ''[[The Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' (New York: Robert Appleton Company)</ref> In the [[Middle Ages]], "[[Charlemagne]] thought of himself, and was viewed by his court scholars, as a 'new David'. [This was] not in itself a new idea, but [one whose] content and significance were greatly enlarged by him".<ref>{{cite book |last=McManners |first=John |title=The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DhpKxQT8n74C&pg=PA101 |page=101 |isbn=9780192854391 |date=2001-03-15 |publisher=OUP Oxford |access-date=2016-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209020220/https://books.google.com/books?id=DhpKxQT8n74C&pg=PA101 |archive-date=2016-02-09 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Western Christian]] churches celebrate David's feast day on 29 December or 6 October,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zeno|title=Lexikoneintrag zu »David (8)«. Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon, Band 1. Augsburg 1858, ...|url=http://www.zeno.org/Heiligenlexikon-1858/A/David+(8)|access-date=2021-10-09|website=www.zeno.org|language=de}}</ref> Eastern-rite on 19 December.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160312173029/https://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1229.shtml Saint of the Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530061211/http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1229.shtml |date=2008-05-30 }} for December 29 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.</ref> The [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] celebrate the [[feast day]] of the "Holy Righteous Prophet and King David" on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (two Sundays before the [[Great Feast]] of the [[Christmas|Nativity of the Lord]]) and on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (Sunday before the [[Christmas|Nativity]]), when he is commemorated together with other [[genealogy of Jesus|ancestors of Jesus]]. He is also commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity, together with [[Saint Joseph|Joseph]] and [[James, the Brother of the Lord]] and on 26 December (Synaxis of the Mother of God).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Пророк Дави́д Псалмопевец, царь Израильский |url=https://azbyka.ru/days/sv-david-car |access-date=2021-10-09 |website=azbyka.rudays |language=ru}}</ref>

====Middle Ages====
[[File:Arms of Ireland (Variant 1) (Historical).svg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Coat of arms [[attributed arms|attributed]] to King David by mediaeval heralds.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lindsay of the Mount Roll |last=Lindsay of the Mount |first=Sir David|author-link=David Lyndsay|date=1542 |url=https://archive.org/stream/facsimileofancie00lind#page/n49/mode/2up|publisher=Edinburgh, W. & D. Laing |access-date=2015-06-21|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203022459/https://archive.org/stream/facsimileofancie00lind#page/n49/mode/2up|archive-date=2016-02-03}}</ref> (Identical to the [[Coat of arms of Ireland|arms of Ireland]])]]

In European [[Christian culture]] of the [[Middle Ages]], David was made a member of the [[Nine Worthies]], a group of heroes encapsulating all the ideal qualities of [[chivalry]]. His life was thus proposed as a valuable subject for study by those aspiring to chivalric status. This aspect of David in the Nine Worthies was popularised first through literature, and thereafter adopted as a frequent subject for painters and sculptors.

David was considered a model ruler and a symbol of [[Divine right of kings|divinely ordained monarchy]] throughout medieval [[Western Europe]] and [[Eastern Europe|Eastern]] [[Christendom]]. He was perceived as the biblical predecessor to Christian Roman and Byzantine emperors and the name "New David" was used as an honorific reference to these rulers.<ref name=Garipzanov>{{cite book|last1=Garipzanov|first1=Ildar H.|title=The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c. 751–877)|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004166691|pages=128, 225|year=2008}}</ref> The [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian]] [[Bagrationi|Bagratids]] and the [[Solomonic dynasty]] of [[Empire of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] claimed direct [[Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty|biological descent]] from him.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rapp|first=Stephen H. Jr. |title=Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past |date=1997|publisher=Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan|page=528}}</ref> Likewise, kings of the [[Franks|Frankish]] [[Carolingian dynasty]] frequently connected themselves to David; [[Charlemagne]] himself occasionally used "David" his pseudonym.<ref name=Garipzanov/>