The name David means “well-beloved.” It is hard to read about him without being attracted to him as Jonathan was. And yet we read in more detail about his failures than any other person in God’s Word. His name appears over 1100 times, more than any other other person in the Bible. We cannot hope to get more than a glimpse of him, and not likely a very balanced one, in the next few pages. In this issue we will concentrate on his personal life. In the next we will look at him as a king. We have much to learn from David’s life, as a man after God’s own heart, as well as the ways of God’s grace and government with us as seen in David’s life. And best of all, as expressed by C.H. Mackintosh, “In a word, David stands before us as the marked type of the Lord Jesus, who, when He appeared amongst men, was despised, overlooked, and forgotten. And may I just add here, that we shall find, in ranging through David’s instructive history, how strikingly he shadowed forth the true beloved of God.”