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1997 Solomon, a sequel to David, with Max von Sydow playing an older King David. [173] 2009 Kings, a re-imagining loosely based on the biblical story, with David played by Christopher Egan. [174] King David is the focus of the second episode of History Channel's Battles BC documentary, which detailed all of his military exploits in the bible. [175]
Death: natural causes: 962–922 970–931: 971–931: Solomon: שלמה בן-דוד מלך ישראל Shelomo ben David, Melekh Yisra'el. Reigned over Israel & Judah in Jerusalem for 40 years. Death: natural causes Son of David by Bathsheba, his rights of succession were disputed by his older half-brother Adonijah: 922–915: 931–913: 931 ...
Death said to have been caused by the shock of hearing that his son James (later King James I of Scotland) had been captured by the English. Henry IV: House of Lancaster (England) 15 April 1367 1399–1413 20 March 1413 Several years of ill health- some type of visible skin ailment. Leprosy is also rumoured to have been possible. Henry V
The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD", [6] (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. The stele is dated to circa 840 BCE; however, the name of the Davidic king is not totally preserved, as much of the stele has not survived since the 9th century BCE.
David was the youngest of eight sons of the fifth from last king. Two more recent kings had produced sons. William fitz Duncan, son of King Donnchad II, and Máel Coluim, son of the last king Alexander, both preceded David in terms of the slowly emerging principles of primogeniture. However, unlike David, neither William nor Máel Coluim had ...
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
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The Court History includes several stories with a distinctly negative attitude towards King David (e.g., the story of his adultery with Bathsheba). German theologian Leonhard Rost [ de ] described the history of David's family in 2 Samuel 9–20 and 1 Kings 1–2 as a Succession Document aiming to justify Solomon 's succession to the throne of ...