After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

King Joash of Judah was recorded as being assassinated by his own servants, Joab assassinated Absalom, King David's son and King Sennacherib of Assyria was assassinated by his own sons.

He took advice from his cousin, Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, to lure Tamar into his quarters by pretending to be sick and desiring her to cook a special meal for him.

The theme is of retribution: David's sin against Uriah the Hittite is punished by God through the destruction of his own family, and its purpose is to serve as an apology for the coronation of Bathsheba's son Solomon instead of his older brother Adonijah.

David's son Absalom rebels against his father, and they come to battle in the Wood of Ephraim.

Bathsheba, David's favorite wife, and Nathan the prophet go to David and procure his agreement that Solomon, Bathsheba's son, should sit on the throne.

David's son, Patri Friedman, is the executive director of the Seasteading Institute.

* The son of Meribaal, still a child when his father was invited to David's house

After Abihail he married Maacah, daughter of Absalom, David's son.

( 1 Kings 2: 27 ) Shimei was confined to Jerusalem and killed three years later, when he went to Gath to retrieve some runaway servants, in part because he had cursed David when David's son Absalom rebelled against David.

In the text, Saul's son Jonathan becomes David's dearest friend.

In return, Stephen confirmed David's son Prince Henry's possessions in England, including the Earldom of Huntingdon.

According to the Babylonian Talmud ( Sotah 42b ) Goliath was a son of Orpah, the sister-in-law of Ruth, David's own great grandmother ( Ruth → Obed → Jesse → David ).

Under David the Israelites establish the kingdom of God, and under David's son Solomon they build the Temple where God takes his earthly dwelling among them.

She was married to David's son Jerimoth and became mother of Rehoboam's wife Mahalath.

After David's death Adonijah ( David's fourth son ), persuaded Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, to entreat the king to permit him to marry Abishag.

* Abishai ( Bible ), the eldest son of Zeruiah, David's sister, or the Semitic chief who offers gifts to the lord of Beni-Hassan

the son of Abda, was the tax collector In the United Kingdom of Israel for over forty years, from the late years of King David's reign () until the reign of Rehoboam.

" However, with Jonathan about the same age as, if not older than, David, Ahinoam, the wife of Saul, would be too old to give birth to David's first-born son, Amnon.

Absalom, David's mutinous son, revolted and won over the tribes of Israel ().

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

A translation by Richard Davies, bishop of St David's and the scholar William Salesbury was published in 1567 by Humphrey Toy as Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin.

* Vaughan, William and Weston, Helen ( eds ), Jacques-Louis David's Marat, Cambridge ( 2000 )

The cases of Bishop of St. David's Thomas Watson in 1699 and of Dean of York William Cockburn in 1841 were particularly notable.

* March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain ( d. 1737 ); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress

He also dispatched a papal legate, Igmarus ( or Hincmar ), to England, charged to investigate the request of Bernard, Bishop of St David's, to elevate his see to the rank of Metropolitan bishop, and to take the pallium to William, Archbishop of York.

In the south William the Conqueror advanced into Dyfed founding castles and mints at St David's and Cardiff.

William Niven, David's father, was of Scottish descent ; his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, ( 1811 – 1884 ) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire.

Some of these works were supervised by William MacDowall, the master of work who fifteen years earlier had repaired David's Tower.

In 1081, William the Conqueror visited St David's to pray, and thus recognised it as a holy and respected place.

* William Williams ( priest ) ( 1848 – 1930 ), Dean of St David's, 1919 – 1931

* William Lyndwood, Bishop of St David's ( 1432 – 1443 )

* William Basil Jones ( 1822 – 1897 ), bishop of St David's

In the summer, David's nephew William fitz Duncan marched into Yorkshire and harried Craven ; on 10 June, he met and defeated an English force of knights and men-at-arms at the battle of Clitheroe.

After the extinction of the senior line of the Scottish royal house in 1290, when the legitimate line of William the Lion of Scotland ended, David's descendants were the prime candidates for the throne.

The village is known for its Bishop's Palace, home to the Bishop of St David's since 1542, when Bishop William Barlow transferred his palace from St David's to Abergwili, re-using the premises of an older college of priests.

Arbroath Abbey was founded by William the Lion and dedicated in 1178 and the earldom of Dundee granted to David, Earl of Huntingdon around 1182 ( Dundee later gained Royal Burgh status in 1292 on the coronation of David's heir, John Balliol ).

The same year William the Conqueror visited Deheubarth, ostensibly on a pilgrimage to St David's, but with a major show of power as well, traversing the width of southern Wales, and it seems likely he came to an arrangement with Rhys, whereby Rhys paid him homage and was confirmed in possession of Deheubarth.

After Scotland's royal dynasty began lose the overlordship of Northhumbria during the reign of William I, David's southern " capital " came into close proximity to the border with England and was subject to attack during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

" David's Charge to Solomon " ( 1882 ), a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, in Trinity Church.

Sitting on the commission with Coutances were Hugh de Puiset the Bishop of Durham, Godfrey de Lucy the Bishop of Winchester, Hubert Walter the Bishop of Salisbury, Peter de Leia the Bishop of St David's, Richard fitzNigel the Bishop-elect of London, William Longchamp the Bishop-elect of Ely and some abbots.

* 1626: William Laud ( Bishop of St David's, 1621 – 1627 and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1626 – 1628 )

After the wedding, the couple's witnesses were Prince William of Wales and the bride's son, Tom Parker Bowles. In keeping with tradition, the couple's wedding rings are crafted from 22 carat Welsh gold from the Clogau St David's mine in Bontddu.