Marc-Antoine Charpentier's 1688 opera, "David and Jonathan," receives a splendid new reinterpretation that centers on an ...

Well, this same King David also slew nationwide disunity. God anointed the youngest son of Jesse, a man after God’s own heart, king over all Israel, but Saul, the disobedient king, refused to ...

The king is quickly enraptured by the young man's musical talents, as are the rest of the House of Saul. Upon his dismissal, David is excited about his interactions with Mychal, but Eliab warns ...

So David, because he carries the same anointing that Saul had, which, in our story, is like the Force in “Star Wars,” and there’s something that Saul recognizes about him.

And his mother was still alive well into his adulthood; David arranged for both his parents to stay in Moab while he was hiding from King Saul (1 Sam. 22:3–4).

It retold the story of King Saul and King David, but set in a modern, fictional kingdom, giving biblical characters different names. The show offered a potent mix of power struggles, corruption ...

King Saul (Ali Suliman) lets power go to his head; the prophet Samuel (Stephen Lang of Avatar) rebukes him for disobedience; David’s oldest brother, Eliab (Davood Ghadami), says David is too ...

After a fourth-month, worldwide search, the Amazon Prime Video drama “House of David” has found its cast of biblical figures. Michael Iskander will lead the series as David. The Egyptian ...

This is where the House of David ’s religious morality does show. It empathizes with Saul, but never questions whether his relatively small disobedience merits such a virulent curse.

Then we go back a year, where David is as a young shepherd, the only one of his father’s sons who hasn’t been drafted to fight in the army of the current king of Israel, Saul (Ali Suliman).

House of David depicts David’s rise from shepherd boy to king after King Saul falls victim to his own pride and the prophet Samuel has no choice but to anoint a new king.

The Prime Video series “follows the once-mighty King Saul as he falls victim to his own pride. At the direction of God, the prophet Samuel anoints an unlikely, outcast teenager as the new king.