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David
Biblical figure and Israelite monarch
This article is about the Biblical monarch.
David/biography
For the name "David", see David (name). For other uses, see David (disambiguation).
"King David" redirects here. For other uses, see King David (disambiguation).
David (; Biblical Hebrew: דָּוִד, romanized: Dāwīḏ, "beloved one")[a][5] was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy,[6][7] according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
According to Jewish works such as the Seder Olam Rabbah, Seder Olam Zutta, and Sefer ha-Qabbalah (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE.[8] The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase bytdwd (𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤃𐤅𐤃), which is translated as "House of David"