David

For David says this about him: ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

“Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day.

For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,

By the Ruach HaKodesh, through the mouth of our father David, your servant, you said, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise useless plans?

Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y’hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. “So it was until the days of David.

God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’

And as for his raising him up from the dead, to return to decay no more, he said, ‘I will give the holy and trustworthy things of David to you.’

For David did indeed serve God’s purposes in his own generation; but after that, he died, was buried with his fathers and did see decay.

‘“After this, I will return; and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David. I will rebuild its ruins, I will restore it,

It concerns his Son — he is descended from David physically;

In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances:

And David says, “Let their dining table become for them a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a punishment.

Remember Yeshua the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, who was a descendant of David. This is the Good News I proclaim,

he again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

What more should I say? There isn’t time to tell about Gid‘on, Barak, Shimshon, Yiftach, David, Sh’mu’el and the prophets;

“To the angel of the Messianic Community in Philadelphia, write: ‘Here is the message of HaKadosh, the True One, the one who has the key of David, who, if he opens something, no one else can shut it, and if he closes something, no one else can open it.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t cry. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Y’hudah, the Root of David, has won the right to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

“I, Yeshua, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the Messianic communities. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.