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David's Mighty Warriors (also known as David's Mighty Men or the Gibborim; Hebrew: הַגִּבֹּרִ֛ים, romanized: hagGībōrīm, lit. 'the Mighty') are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in 2 Samuel 23:8–38 , part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel in ...
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 22:1–14 [1] and Luke 14:15–24. [ 2 ] It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in the Gospel of Luke .
1997 Solomon, a sequel to David, with Max von Sydow playing an older King David. [174] 2009 Kings, a re-imagining loosely based on the biblical story, with David played by Christopher Egan. [175] 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. [176]
The parable of the Ten Virgins reinforces the call for readiness in the face of the uncertain time of the Second Coming. [2] It has been described as a "watching parable". [5] Like the parable of the Lost Coin, it is a parable about women which immediately follows, and makes the same point as, a preceding parable about men. [note 1]
A Levite from the mountains of Ephraim had a concubine, who left him and returned to the house of her father in Bethlehem in Judah. [2] Heidi M. Szpek observes that this story serves to support the institution of monarchy, and the choice of the locations of Ephraim (the ancestral home of Samuel, who anointed the first king) and Bethlehem (the home of King David) are not accidental.
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son (verses 16-24) is also found in Matthew 22:1–14. A variant of the parable also appears in Saying 64 of the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. [18] Many guests are invited to the banquet, but they "all alike" [19] offered excuses, of which three examples are given.
The parable of the talents, depicted in a 1712 woodcut. The lazy servant searches for his buried talent, while the two other servants present their earnings to their master. The Parable of the Talents (also the Parable of the Minas) is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in two of the synoptic, canonical gospels of the New Testament:
The story is sometimes thought of as a loose adaptation of one in the Gospel of Mark, of the healing of a blind man called Bartimaeus, but in fact is a different story, The healing of Bartimaeus takes place near Jericho, involves two men who call out from the roadside as Jesus passes by, and comes later in Matthew 20:29-34. In Matthew 9, the ...