Pastor Jason Fulmer

  In the last post, we discussed how David was treated as an outcast because his mother had been previously married to a heathen king (the king of Ammon) and thus David’s brothers and father treated him as an outcast. In this final part, we’ll look at some other speculations about who the mother of King David was. Other Speculations about Who King David’s Mother Was The explanation I’ve laid about above seems to make the most historical, and most of all Biblical, sense. But, there are others floating around out there as well. One speculation I’ve found was that David’s father Jesse accused David’s mother of committing adultery. The account goes that Jesse disowned her, and married another woman. But, that woman felt sorry for David’s mother and, on the night of the marriage, swapped places with her and Jesse actually slept with his original wife, thinking it was his new wife (think Jacob, Rachel, and Leah), thus impregnating her with David, though he wasn’t aware of it. Therefore, ...

  Psalm 51:5 (KJV) – “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.” In Part 1 of this series, we brought out how that in this Psalm, David was not referring to being born into the sin nature because they didn’t understand that concept yet. David Was an Outcast Among his Family Let’s look into this and find out why I say this. David had two half-sisters (Zeruiah, Abigail) according to  1 st  Chronicles 2:15(b) -16(a)  …David the seventh:   (16)   Whose sisters  were  Zeruiah, and Abigail….  The  father  of David’s half-sisters was  not  Jesse.  2 Samuel 17:25(b)   …Abigail  the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah  Joab’s mother. Nahash, the father of Zeruiah and Abigal, David’s half-sisters, was an Ammonite king, according to  1 Samuel 11:1   Then  Nahash the Ammonite  came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead … 1 Samuel 12:12   And when ye saw that...

  I found the following on the web and thought it was interesting. It is adapted from its original post, which you can read by   clicking here Psalm 51:5 (KJV) – “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.” This is a Hebrew poetic parallelism where the second line of the verse says the same thing as the first line but in a slightly different way. The subject of  Psalm 51:5  does not seem to be dealing with the condition of David’s nature as a sinner at, or before, his birth. Although it is true that he was born in sin (into the nature of sin) just like all other people, they did not understand this concept as we do today. As a matter of fact, this concept was not understood fully until it was written about by Paul in  Romans 7 . This is where Paul discusses that he could not do the things he  want ed  to do, and yet would find himself doing the things he  doesn’t  want to do. He ultimately comes to the understandi...